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THE GUDE AND GODLIE 
BALLATES. 



Edinburgh: W. PATERSON. 

Dundee: FREDERICK Shaw. 

London: J. RUSSELL SMITH. 



COMPENDIOUS BOOK 

OF PSALMS 
AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, 

COMMONLY KNOWN AS 

" THE GUDE AND GODLIE BALLATES." 



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Reprinted from the Edition of 1578. 
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PREFACE. 



/. — The Gude and Godlie Ballates, and 
the reputed Authors. 




Garden of Spiritual Flowers, 
to adopt one of the quaint Eng- 
lish titles of an early date, might 
have been quite as appropriate 
for this collection as that of A 
Compendious Bqok, &c. The 
flowers it exhibits may not be remarkable either 
for poetical fragrance or beauty, although varie- 
gated both as to form and colour. But whatever 
estimate we may form of the collection, it has its 
own peculiar value, in connexion with the litera- 
ture of the Reformation period in Scotland; and 



vi Preface. 

being the only one of its kind, this little volume 
deserves to be better known than it is at the 
present day. Its history, indeed, is rather sin- 
gular. Having passed through several editions, 
of which hundreds of copies were printed to- 
wards the close of the sixteenth century, it 
may seem strange to add, that the book it- 
self had a somewhat narrow escape ever to 
have reached our times. During the last cen- 
tury no public library was known to possess a 
copy ; and the only one discovered in any private 
collection was that of Andro Hart's, with the 
date of printing cut off. It was from this solitary 
copy that Lord Hailes printed selections as a 
1 'Specimen" of the work in 1765; and that 
further selections were included in Sibbald's 
" Chronicle of Scottish Poetry," in 1802; while 
a literal reprint of the entire book (thus affording 
some security for its future preservation) formed 
the chief portion of Daly ell's " Scotish Poems of 
the Sixteenth Century," in 1 80 1. 

A few years later a second copy of Hart's edi- 
tion, with the title-page entire, dated 162 1, and 
also the earlier edition by Smyth in 1 600, chanced 
to make their appearance, and have since passed 
through the hands of successive collectors. Still 



Preface. vii 

more recently, a copy of the hitherto unknown 
edition of 1 57 8 occurred in a London sale, and 
was purchased for a late zealous collector of early 
poetical literature. Having, for the purpose of col- 
lation or transcription, obtained from Mr Christie 
Miller of Craigentinny the liberal use of this 
unique copy, preserved in the library at Britwell 
House, Bucks, I found that the three known 
editions of these " Gude and Godlie Ballates " 
were essentially the same; yet it occurred to me 
that a good service would be rendered by re- 
printing it verbatim, in a small convenient form, 
so that copies, at a moderate price, might be 
placed within reach of many persons who take an 
interest in such remains of Popular Poetry, but 
who know nothing of DalyelFs collection, which, 
besides, has now become scarce, and expensive. 
The present volume, accordingly, is a literal re- 
print, page for page, of the 1578 edition, but 
supplying some of its defects, correcting the 
punctuation and several obvious typographical 
errors, while adopting the common form of type, 
instead of the black-letter, as best suited for 
ordinary readers. 

The Collection, it will be observed, divides 
itself naturally into three separate parts or divi- 



viii Preface. 

sions. The first is Doctrinal, including a Cate- 
chism, the Creed, &c, in metre, with various 
Spiritual Songs. The second contains versions of 
twenty-two Psalms, and a number of Hymns, 
chiefly translations from the German. The third, 
which gives its peculiar character to the col- 
lection, consists of secular Songs, but converted 
from profane into religious poetry. This mode 
of adapting popular rhymes and tunes to sacred 
subjects, but often clothed in a very incongruous 
form, was not unknown in other countries. But 
before considering this matter in relation to the 
present volume, although it is obviously impos- 
sible to ascribe the contents, either in whole or 
in part, to the respective Authors, we may inquire 
what is known or reported on this head. 

This "Compendious Book" should properly 
be regarded as a Poetical Miscellany by va- 
rious authors, yet tradition, and the concurrent 
testimony of some old writers, assign the author- 
ship to two brothers, John and Robert Wed- 
derburn, of Dundee, who flourished about the 
year 1 540. That either of them was the collec- 
tor or editor of the volume, or that any con- 
siderable portion of it was printed in Scotland 
prior to the Reformation, are points which seem 



Preface. ix 

to be highly improbable. We find no reference 
to the book earlier than to an impression about 
1570, and " the augmentation of ballatis not con- 
tained in the first edition " may have been made 
when the volume was reprinted at Edinburgh, 
in 1578. 

In adding some notices respecting the reputed 
Authors, I can, however, do little more than re- 
capitulate what has previously been gleaned by 
Daly ell, M'Crie, and others, derived chiefly from 
Calderwood's MS. History. As this industrious 
historian obtained his information from manuscript 
sources, which are not now preserved, his own 
words, without abridgment, may be quoted. 
Under the year 1 540 he says : — 

" This yeere James Wedderburne, eldest 
sonne to James Wedderburne, merchant at Dun- 
die, called James Wedderburne at the West Kirk 
Stile, was delated to the King, and letters of 
captioun directed to take him. He departed se- 
creetlie to France, and remained at Rowan and 
Deep till he deceassed. He had beene brought 
up in Sanct Leonard's Colledge in his youth, in 
the time of the governement of Johne Duke of 
Albanie, and was reasonable weill instructed in 



x Preface. 

philosophie and humanitie. Thereafter he went 
to France, where he played the merchant. After 
his returne, he was instructed in religioun by 
James Hewat, a Blacke frier at Dundie. He 
confirmed the doctrine which the other had re- 
ceaved in his youth, in St Leonard's Colledge, 
under Mr Gawin Logie. This James had a good 
gift of poesie, and made diverse comedeis and 
tragedeis in the Scotish tongue, wherein he nipped 
the abusses and superstitioun of the time. He 
composed in forme of tragedie the beheading of 
Johne the Baptist, which was acted at the West 
Port of Dundie, wherin he carped roughlie the 
abusses and corruptiouns of the Papists. He 
compiled the Historie of Dyonisius the Tyranne, 
in forme of a comedie, which was acted in the 
play-feild of the said burgh, wherin he likewise 
nipped the Papists. He counterfooted also the 
conjuring of a ghaist, which was, indeed, prac- 
tised by Frier Laing, beside Kingorne, which 
Frier Laing had beene Confessor to the King. 
But after this conjuring the King was constrained, 
for shame, to remove him. When he was at 
Deepe the factors at Deepe, Johne Meldrum, 
Henrie Tod, Johne Mowat, Gilbert Scot, delated 
him to the Bishop of Rowan ; but the Bishop re- 



Prefc 



ace. xi 



fused to meddle with him, becaus they could 
prove nothing against him. They informed the 
Bishop and Channons of Rowan that he was 
declared an heretick in Scotland : the Bishop de- 
sired them to send for the processe, and that 
being tryed, he sould have no residence there- 
We heare no farther, but that he remained as 
factor at Deepe, and deing, said to his sonne, — 
' We have beene acting our part in the theater : 
you are to succeed; see that you act your part 
faithfullie.' 

" Mr Johne Wedderburne, his brother, 
brought up also in the course of philosophie, 
under Mr Gawin Logie, being per s waded by his 
friends, albeit against his will, he tooke on the order 
of preesthood, and was a preest in Dundie. But 
soone after he beganne to profess e the (reformed) 
religioun. Being summouned, he departed to Al- 
maine [Germany], where he heard Luther and 
Melancton, and became verie fervent and zealous. 
He translated manie of Luther's dytements into 
Scotish meeter, and the Psalmes of David. He 
turned manie bawdie songs and rymes in godlie 
rymes. He returned after the death of the King, 
in December 1 542, but was againe persued by 
the Cardinall, and fled to England. 



xii Preface. 

" Mr Robert Wedderburne, the youngest 
brother, brought up also under Mr Gawin, ex- 
celled his brother both in humanitie and know- 
ledge of the Scriptures. He succeeded to Mr 
Robert Barrie, Vicar of Dundie. He went to 
Parise, where he remained cheeflie in companie 
of those that were instructed in religioun, as Mr 
Alexander Hay, N. Sandelands, sonne to the 
Laird of Calder, in West Lothiane, and Lord of 
Sanct Johne, whose father and whole familie 
were most zealous in advancing of religioun. 
After the death of the Cardinall he returned to 
Scotland. The Vicar, his mother's brother, being 
departed, he gott possessioun of the vicarage, but 
remained for the most part with the Laird of 
Calder. When he was comming home out of 
the east countreis, in a Danskein ship, the shippe 
was driven by contrarie winds upon Norway, 
where the passengers landed at Ripperwicke, and 
remained certane dayes. In the meane time, upon 
the Saturday before Whitsonday even, 1546, after 
continual! disputing and reasoning among the pas- 
sengers, some Popish, and some Protestants, he, 
and the rest of his fellowes, tooke the boldnesse, 
notwithstanding they understood nothing of the 
Cardinally death, to make his pourtraiture, or 



Preface, xiii 

statue, of a great oaken blocke, and therupon 
write his name in paper affixed theron. They 
accuse him, condemne him, and burne his statue 
in a great fire of timber. The Cardinall was 
slaine that same verie day, in the morning, 1 in his 
owne Castell of Sanct Andrewes." 2 

In addition to these notices, it may be stated 
that more than one family of the Wedderburns 
flourished in Dundee, or its neighbourhood, at 
an earlier period. Sir Robert Douglas, in his 
Baronage of Scotland, 3 has given a detailed ac- 
count of the Wedderburns of Blackness and 
the Wedderburns of Gosford. According to 
Nisbet 4 the name was local, taken from the lands 
and barony of Wedderburn, in Berwickshire ; 
and Douglas says, — " That the first who settled 
in Angus was James Wedderburn, burgess in 
Dundee, in the Reign of James III. He had 
two sons, David, mentioned in a charter 5 19th 

1 On the 29th of May 1546. (Knox's Works, vol. i. 
P. 174). 

2 Calderwood's History, MS., 1636 (Advocates Lib- 
rary) ; and Wodrow Society edition, vol. i. p. 141. 

3 Edinb. 1798, p. 278. 

4 Heraldry, vol. i. p. 371. 

5 The charter to which Douglas here refers, under a 
wrong date, is Lib. xii. No. 186. It contains no reference 



xiv Preface. 

February 1489-90, who died without issue; and 
James, merchant-burgess of Dundee, who mar- 
ried Janet, daughter of David Forrester of 
Nevay, by whom he had a son, John, who was 
town-clerk of Dundee, and had charters in 1 527 
and 1533, and whose son, David, also became 
town-clerk of Dundee," &c. 

This account by Douglas is not quite cor- 
rect; but the persons we have specially to notice 
were James Wedderburn, merchant-burgess, and 
his sons, three of whom seem to have received 
a liberal education. In extracting from the Re- 
gisters of the University of St Andrews between 
1500 to 1540, the names of the Wedderburns 
(who are usually marked as natives of Angus, 
or that district of the country to the . north of 
the Tay), I will not pretend either to assign the 
exact relationship that may have existed between 
them, or to account for various apparent discre- 
pancies in the notices we have in regard to their 
history. 

to James Wedderburne, burgess, but simply mentions the 
house called a land belonging to David Wedderburn, m 
Dundee, in describing the boundaries of a property assigned 
to one of the Chaplains in the parish church of Dundee, 
19th February 1489-90. 



Preface. xv 

Nomina Incorporatorum. — Acta Rectorum. 
(1504). — Johannes Wedderburne, nac. Ang. (in 

Collegio). 
(1505). — Ro[bertus] Wedderburne, nac. Ang. 

(in Pedagogio). 
1507. — Johannes Wedderburne (in Collegio). 
1509. — Jacobus Wedderburn (in Collegio). 
1 5 14. — Jacobus Wedderburne, nacionis Angusie. 
1525. — Johannes Wedderburn (in Pedagogio). 
1526. — Robertus Wedderburne, An. (in Collegio). 

Nomina Determinatorum et Licentiatorum. — 

Acta Facultatis Artium. 

1509. — Robertus Wedderburn, primus actus Col- 

legii, pauper — (Determ.) 
151 1. — Robertus Wedderburn — (Licent.) 
1 526. — Johannes Wedderburn, quartus actus, dives 

— (Determ.) 
1528. — Johannes Wedderburn — (Licent.) 
1529. — Robertus Wedderburn, in Collegio Divi 

Leonardi — (Determ.) 
1530. — Robertus Wedderburn, in Collegio Divi 

Leonardi — (Licent.) 

I. James Wedderburn. — In the preceding list 
we find a Jacobus Wedderburn incorporated in 



xvi Preface. 

St Salvator's College, St Andrews, in the year 
1509, and another of the same name in 15 14, 
neither of whom seems to have taken the Degree 
of Bachelor, or of Master of Arts. James, who 
became a burgess of Dundee, is said to have 
spent some time in France connected with his 
mercantile affairs. He married Janet Forrester, 
and had at least two sons, John and Robert, as 
appears from the public records : — 

1527-8, January 20. A charter of confirma- 
tion granted to John Wedderburn, son of James 
Wedderburn junior, burgess of Dundee, pro- 
created between him and Janet Forrester, his 
spouse, of the lands of Croft, with a part of the 
land of Tullohill, &c. in Forfarshire. 1 

1533, October 14. Another charter of con- 
firmation, granted to James Wedderburn junior, 
burgess of Dundee, and Janet Forrester, his 
spouse, and John Wedderburn, their son, of 
thirteen acres of the lordship of Dudhope, in 
Forfarshire. 2 

The name of the other son, Robert, occurs in 
a less enviable manner than that of others of the 
family, who were accused of heresy. 

1 Regist. Magni Sigilli, Lib. xxii. fol. 77. 

2 Regist. Magni Sigilli, Lib. xxv. fol. 53. 



Prefi 



ace. xvn 



" Ane respitt maid to Robert Wedderburn, 
sone to James Wedderburn, burges of Dundee, 
for the slaughter of umquhill (blank) Malisoun, 
and for all actioun and cryme that may follow 
therupoun, and for xix zeris to indure, &c. At 
Linlithgow, the sext day of Januar the zere for- 
said [1537-8] per Signaturam" 1 

This James Wedderburn, as Calderwood re- 
lates, exhibited proofs of his dramatic talents, 
having converted the History of John the Baptist 
into a dramatic poem, and also the History of 
Dionysius the Tyrant, both of which are said 
to have been acted at Dundee. Such perform- 
ances involved him in trouble, and obliged him, 
in the year 1 540, to escape abroad; and Cal- 
derwood adds, that he continued to reside at 
Dieppe or Rouen until his death, which we may 
conjecture was about the year 1550. Of his 
dramatic pieces no trace has been discovered. 

II. Mr John Wedderburn, second son of the 
elder James, was educated at St Andrews, but not 
at St Leonard's College, under Gawin Logye, as 
usually reported : his name occurs among the stu- 
dents in the Padagogium (a name at first applied 

1 Regist. Secreti Sigilli, vol. xi. fol. 43. 
B 



xviii Preface. 

to the New or St Mary's College), who were in- 
corporated in the year I5 2 5> at tri e same time 
with George Buchanan and his brother Patrick. 
Wedderburn took his Bachelor's degree in 1526, 
and became Master of Arts in 1528. He then 
entered the priesthood. 

Lindesay of Pitscottie, under the year I53°> 
calls " Mr Johne Wedderburn " Vicar of Dun- 
dee. He cannot, however, be trusted for minute 
accuracy, but the incident he records is worthy 
of notice. Lord William Howard having come 
to Scotland that year as Ambassador, with a 
large retinue of persons skilled in all kinds of 
games, among trials of skill which took place 
one was that of archery. The Queen Dowager, 
sister of Henry VIIL, laid a wager with her son, 
the young King, of one hundred crowns and a 
tun of wine, on the superiority of the English over 
the Scots. Six persons were chosen on each side, 
and the trial took place at St Andrews. Pits- 
cottie says, the six chosen for the Scots were three 
of the landed men, David Wemyss of that ilk, 
David Arnot of that ilk, and Mr Johne Wedder- 
burn, Vicar of Dundee, with three yeomen. " They 
shot (he says) very near, and warred (got the 
better of) the Englishmen of the enterprise, and 



Prefc 



ace. xix 



wan the hundred crowns 1 and the tun of wine ; 
which made the King very merry, that his men 
wan the victory." In some copies of Pitscottie it 
is added, they "went thereafter to the toun, and 
maid ane banquett to the King, and the Queene, 
and the Inglisch Ambassadour, with the whole 
two hundred crounes, and the two tuns of wyne. 
Albeit that the Inglismen confessed that the Scot- 
tismen sould have been freed of the payment of 
that banquett, quhilk was so gorgeous that it was 
of no less availl than the said gold and wyne 
extended to." 

It appears from the Treasurer's Accounts for 
the year 1538-1539 that 40s. was received as the 
composition of the escheat of the goods of Mr 
John Wedderburn, convicted of heresy (de certis 
criminibus hereseos), granted in favour of his 
brother Henry. Among various persons in Dundee 
who, at that time, were condemned upon a similar 
charge of heresy, was James Rollok, burgess ; and 
in March 1539 a pursuivant was directed " to pass 
to Dundee and serche James Rollokkis gudis, and 
Maister Johnne Wedderburn [is] ." In the previous 

1 The crown, in the reign of James V., was a gold 
coin, equivalent to one pound Scots, or is. 8d. sterling, no 
inconsiderable sum at that time. 



xx Preface. ■ 

year we also find that Gilbert Wedderburn, bur- 
gess of Dundee, had been convicted of heresy. 

III. Mr Robert Wedderburn, a younger son, 
as a student in the University of St Andrews, 
was incorporated in 1 526, and took his degrees 
of Bachelor and of Master of Arts in 1530, under 
Mr Gawin Logye, Principal of St Leonard's College. 
Logye took his degree of A.M. at St Andrews in 
1 5 12. In 15 18 he is styled Regens Collegii S. 
Leonard! ', and, in 1 52 3, Principal of that College. 
He fled, it is supposed, in 1 53 5, to avoid the 
accusation of heresy ; and the name of his succes- 
sor occurs two years later. 1 Calderwood says 
that Robert Wedderburn succeeded his uncle, Mr 
Robert Barrie, 2 as Vicar of Dundee. There was 

1 Knox's Works, vol. i. pp. 36, 528. 

2 The name of Barry or Barrie was not uncommon at 
this time. In the St Andrews University Registers we 
find the name of Robertus Barry as a Determinant in 
1462, and a Licentiate or A.M. in 1465. Other names 
might be mentioned of a later date. I have a volume 
in the old wooden boards, containing : — 1. Liber Alex- 
andri Magni de Preliis. 2. Historie notabiles collecte ex 
Gestis Romanorum. 3. Mag. Jac. de Theramo Con- 
solatio Peccatorum et vulgo Belial appelatur: Printed 
by Jo. Veldener, 1474, folio. On the fly-leaf is writ- 
ten, " Iste liber constat Magistro Henrico Barry, Rec- 



Pre/a 



ace. xxi 



a Mr John Barry, Vicar of Dundee, at an earlier 
period. 1 

In the Regis trum Episcopatus Brechinensis (vol. 
ii. p. 184), we find the names of James Wedder- 
burn, one of the bailies of Dundee, also Cristina 
Jameson, spouse of David Wedderburn senior, 
and Henry Wedderburn, 7th December 1532. 
In the appendix to the same register (ib. p. 319) 
is an indenture between the burgh of Dundee and 
Andro Barry, kirkmaster for the tyme of the 
paroch kirk of our Lady, 23d March 1 536, to 
which Mr Jhone Barry, George Rollok, James 
Wedderburn junior, and others, were witnesses. 

It is usually supposed that the three brothers 
shared in the persecutions to which the adherents 
of what was termed the Lutheran doctrines were 
exposed, and that, being tried, and condemned for 
heresy, they escaped to the Continent. All this may 
have happened, but we have no direct evidence of 

tori de Culass, empt. 11 Aprilis anno 147 [6?];" also 
u Liber Henrici Barry, Rectoris de Culess, qui dedit fra- 
tribus Ordinis Predicatorum de Dwnde." In a later hand 
is written, " Et nunc ex voluminibus G[eorgii] Ogiluy." 
1 Mr John Berri, Vicar of Dundee, 9th June 1483 
(Registrum de Aberbrothok, i. p. 194) — Mr John Barry, 
Vicar of Dundee, 1495 (Reg. Episc. Brechin., vol. ii. p. 
134). 



xxii Preface. 

the facts, except in the case of John, the second 
brother. Had Robert been convicted, he neces- 
sarily would have been deprived of his preferment 
in the Church ; his name, however, occurs in the 
public records as the father of two illegitimate 
sons, having (what was not uncommon for priests 
in those days) obtained letters of legitimation, 
under the Great Seal, granted by the Gover- 
nor, in the Queen's name, in favour of Robert 
and David Wedderburns, bastard sons natural of 
Mr Robert Wedderburn, Vicar of Dundee, 
dated at Linlithgow on the 13th January 1 552-3. 
As the term olim or quondam is not applied either 
to the Vicar's office or person, we may conclude, 
without absolutely asserting the fact, that he was 
then alive, and still retained his office as Vicar. 1 
This is a question intimately connected with a 
disputed point in our literary history, to which I 
shall, in a subsequent page, take occasion to advert. 
David Wedderburn above mentioned is not to be 
confounded with his namesake the town-clerk of 

1 " Legitimatio Roberti et Davidis Wedderburn bastar- 
dorum filiorum naturalium Magistri Roberti Wed- 
derburn, Vicarii de Dundee — Apud Linlithquo, 13. 
January 1552, et Regni nostri vndecimo." (Reg. Mag. 
Sig., Lib. xxxi. No. 114). 



Preface. xxiii 

Dundee, who, according to Douglas's Baronage, 
was son of John, styled son of James Wed- 
derburn junior, in 1 52 7, and having married 
Helen Lawson, he " lived to a great age, and 
died about the year 1590." David Wedder- 
burn, burgess of Dundee, and Helen Lawson, 
his spouse, had conjoint charters, under the 
Great Seal, of lands in Forfarshire, &c, dated 
loth February 1 538-9, confirming a grant in 
their favour by John, Abbot of Lindores, 9th 
October 1535-, also two others on 8th October 
1542 and 8th August 1552. 

The preceding notices may not be very satisfac- 
tory ; and unfortunately, so far as the subsequent 
history of the Wedderburns is concerned, no pre- 
cise information has been recorded. That some of 
the following ballads belong to a later period than 
that of the Wedderburns, is evident from internal 
evidence. For instance, at p. 49, the words, 

thy word at lenth 

Is preichit cleir befoir our ene, 
with the satirical allusions in Hay trix, hay trim, at 
p. 178-181, and the mention made of the Protest- 
ants, at p. 178, as The Congregation, may certainly 
be referred to the year 1559. 1 In like manner, the 

1 I find that in this view I am not singular. The author 



xxiv Preface. 

words alluding to the destruction of some of the 
Abbey Churches and Religious Houses, at p. 185 — 
Had not your self begun the weiris, 
Your stepillis had bene standand yet 

In George Bannatyne's MS. collection of Scot- 
tish poetry, 1 568, the four following poems are 
attributed to Wedderburn, but no Christian 
name is given. They evidently are of the time 
of James the Fifth : — 

Ball at is in pray is of Wemen. 
"I marvell of thir vane fantastik men," 

34 stanzas of 7 lines, . . . fol. 239 b. 
"My lufe was fals and full of flattery," 

9 stanzas of 7 lines, . . . fol. 260. 
"I think thir men ar verry fals and vane," 

14 stanzas of 7 lines, . . . fol. 279. 
"O man, transformit and unnaturall!" 

18 stanzas of 7 lines, . . . fol. 287 b. 

John Jonston, Professor at St Andrews (1593- 

161 1), in his unpublished work, entitled " IIEPI- 

STEOANHN Sive de Coronis Martyrum in Scotia, 

of a Memoir of Sir John G. Dalyell, referring to his repub- 
lication of the Gude and Godlie Ballates in 1801, says : — 
" From the frequent allusion in them to the Queen Re- 
gent, the Pope, and the priesthood, it is evident that many 
of them were written in the heat of the Reformation." 
Lond. 1858, 4to, p. xxii. 



Preface. xxv 

necnon Peculium Ecclesiae Scoticanae" (from which 
Dr M'Crie, in his Life of Knox, selected the 
most interesting portions), thus commemorates the 
three brothers : — 

Johannes Wedderburnus. 
Pulsus in exilium, an. 1546, Exul in Anglia moritur 1556. 
1. 
Non meriti est nostri, meritas tibi dicere grates, 

Aut paria, aut aliqua parte referre vicem. 
Quae meruisse alii vellent, nee posse mereri est : 

Haec velle, haec posse, haec te meruisse tuum est. 
Sic facis at que canis sacra : sic agis omnia, nil ut 

Sanctius, et nusquam purior ulla fides. 
Hinc nullum magis invisum caput hostibus : hinc et 

Nemo umquam meruit charior esse bonis. 
Grandius hoc meritum, nil te meruisse fateris, 
Humanis meritis nee superesse locum. 
11, 
De Johanne, Jacobo, et Roberto Wedder- 

burno, fratribus. 
Divisvm imperium, per tres, tria Numina, Fratres, 

Infera quae que vides, quae que superna, canunt. 
Vos miror potius tres vero nomine fratres, 

Vosque supra veneror, Numina vana, Deos ; 
Concordes animas, clarissima lumina gentis, 

Tres paribus studiis, tres pietate pares. 
Felices qui vos tales genuere parentes, 

Quaeque orbi tellus pignora rara dedit. 
Progenitos Caelo Alectum dedit inclyta terris : 
Inde Dei-Donum nomen habere putem. 



xxvi Preface. 



IL — The Psalms and Hymns of the 
Reformed Churches. 



The practice of singing psalms and hymns in 
Christian worship has prevailed in all ages. Of 
the early Latin hymns some still retain their place 
in the Service Book of the Romish Church, and 
have also been translated, for that purpose, into 
different languages, and continue to be sung or 
chaunted in the English and other Reformed 
Churches. The Hussites, or Bohemian Brethren, 
in the fifteenth century, had their devotional 
songs. But it remained for the great German 
Reformer to give a permanent form and charac- 
ter to the hymnology of his fatherland, by the 
publication of his " Gesangbuch "in 1 524. This 
was a collection of hymns enlarged from time to 
time by himself and others, suited as well for 
private edification as for public worship, being 
written in the vernacular tongue, and set in many 
instances to popular airs or melodies. It is easy 
to conceive that no method could have been better 
adapted to excite the enthusiasm of the German 



Preface. xxvii 

people, and, by setting an example to other 
countries, materially to promote the spread of the 
Protestant faith. 

The chief source of modern hymnology may, 
therefore, be clearly traced to a German origin. 
The collections published by Dr Wackernagel and 
the Chevalier Bunsen exhibit the great variety and 
extent of such compositions. Miss C. Winkworth's 
" Lyra Germanica," first and second series, and 
other works of a recent date, 1 have served to intro- 
duce such hymns to the notice of English readers. 
In the preface to the first series, or " Hymns for 
the Sundays and Chief Festivals of the Christian 
Year, translated from the German," Miss Wink- 

1 Among these may be noticed a little volume by the 
Rev. George Walker, minister of Kinnell, Presbytery of 
Arbroath, entitled, " Hymns translated or imitated from 
the German : To which is prefixed a Preface, giving an 
account of the origin of the Lutheran Hymns : By a 
Clergyman." Lond., i860, i2mo., pp. xxiv., 116. Mr 
Walker refers to the earlier Gesangbuchs as the source of 
both Wedderburn and Coverdale's translations. See also 
Professor Lorimer's interesting volume, u The Scottish Re- 
formation; a Historical Sketch." Lond. i860, small 4to. 
Two excellent articles, " Hymnology, German and English," 
occur in "TheChristian Observer," 1859, pp. 704,834. But 
the subject has recently been illustrated in a more detailed 
manner by Professor Mitchell of St Andrews. See page liv. 



xxv iii Preface. 

worth says, — " Ever since the Reformation, the 
German Church has been remarkable for the num- 
ber and excellence of its hymns and hymn-tunes. 
Before that time it was not so. There was no place 
for congregational singing in public worship, and 
therefore the spiritual songs of the latter part of 
the middle ages assumed for the most part an arti- 
ficial and unpopular form. Yet there were not 
wanting germs of a National Church poetry in the 
verses rather than hymns which were sung in Ger- 
man on pilgrimages and at some of the high festi- 
vals, many of which verses were again derived from 
more ancient Latin hymns. Several of Luther's 
hymns are amplifications of verses of this class, 
such as the Pentecostal hymn here given, ' Come, 
Holy Spirit, God and Lord,' which is founded on 
a German version of the ' Veni Sancte Spiritus, 
Reple! By adopting these verses, and retaining 
their well-known melodies, Luther enabled his 
hymns to spread rapidly among the common 
people. He also composed metrical versions of 
several of the Psalms, the Te Deum, the Ten 
Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Nunc 
DimittiSy the Da nobis Pacem, &c., thus en- 
riching the people, to whom he had already 
given the Holy Scriptures in their own language, 



Preface xxix 

with a treasure of that sacred poetry which 
is the precious inheritance of every Christian 
Church." l 

Similar attempts, but not with the same suc- 
cess, were made in other countries, to provide 
metrical versions of the psalms and hymns, suited 
for public worship. In such countries, however, 
as France, Italy, and Flanders, the progress of the 
Reformation was not only rudely checked, but 
the people generally were not actuated by the 
same innate love of popular and sacred music as 
in Germany. Moreover, in these countries the 
practice of singing in the Reformed churches, 
during public worship, was in a great measure 
limited to metrical versions of the Psalter. In 
France, the thirty psalms translated by Clement 
Marot, and increased to fifty in 1541, being set 
to popular airs, found favour for a time among 
the French courtiers. This version was finally 
completed by Theodore Beza in 1 562, accom- 
panied by musical notes, and it has since con- 
tinued in use by the Protestant Churches both 
in France and Switzerland. 

In Switzerland the practice of singing psalms 
in the vernacular tongue by the congregation at 

1 New edition, p. viii. Lond., 1859, iamo. 



xxx Preface. 

large, in place of chaunting Latin Canticles or hymns 
by the clergy alone, had been introduced at Basel 
by (Ecolompadius, so early as 1 52 7. Various 
circumstances seem to have prevented this mode 
prevailing to any extent. 

In England there is a singular coincidence in the 
history of metrical psalmody with that in France. 
The version which came into general use was 
commenced by Thomas Sternhold, Groom of the 
King's Chamber. A selection of nineteen psalms 
in metre was first printed at London, without date, 
but apparently in the year 1 549, with a dedication 
to the young King Edward the Sixth. Two 
years afterwards the number of psalms by Stern- 
hold was increased to thirty-seven-, and others, 
after his death, were added by John Hopkins. 
This version received further additions by the 
English exiles of Geneva; and being finally com- 
pleted and printed, with the tunes, in 1 562, it 
was " allowed," but not enjoined, to be used in 
churches, by authority of Queen Elizabeth. 

Had the use of metrical psalmody been gene- 
rally adopted in the Church of England during 
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, its effects might 
have more nearly resembled that of Germany. We 
find, at least, a notice confirming this in a letter of 



Preface. xxxi 

Bishop Jewell to Petrus Martyr, 5th March 1 560, 
which may stand alongside of the often quoted 
description of the Edinburgh congregation of 
about 2000 people welcoming the return of their 
minister, John Dury, on 3d September 1582, by 
singing in the streets the cxxiv. psalm, " till haevin 
and erthe resoundit." In Scotland, it is well 
known that song schools were maintained in all 
the larger towns ; and the old Psalm books having 
in most editions the tunes, this implies some know- 
ledge of musical notation. Bishop Jewell thus 
writes : — 

"Religio nunc aliquanto confirmatior est, quam 
fuit. Populus ubique ad meliorem partem valde 
proclivis. Magnum ad earn rem momentum at- 
tulit ecclesiastica et popularis musica. Postquam 
enim semel Londini coeptum est in una tantum 
ecclesiola cani publice, statim non tantum ecclesiae 
aliae finitimae, sed etiam longe disjunctae civitates, 
coeperunt idem institutum certatim expetere. Nunc 
ad Crucem Pauli videas interdum sex hominum 
millia, finita concione, senes, pueros, mulierculas, 
una canere, et laudare Deum. Id sacrificos et 
diabolum aegre habet. Vident enim sacras con- 
dones hoc pacto profundius descendere in hominum 
animos, et ad singulos pene numeros convelli et 



xxxii Preface. 

concuti regnum suum. Nihil tamen habent, quod 
jure ac merito quere possint." * 

"Religion is now somewhat more established 
than it was. The people are every where exceed- 
ingly inclined to the better part. The practice of 
joining in church music has very much conduced 
to this, for as soon as they had once commenced 
singing in public, in only one little church in 
London, immediately not only the churches in the 
neighbourhood, but even the towns far distant, 
began to vie with each other in the same prac- 
tice. You may now sometimes see at St Paul's 
Cross, after the service, six thousand persons, old 
and young, of both sexes, all singing and prais- 
ing God. This sadly annoys the mass-priests and 
the devil, for they perceive that by these means 
the sacred discourses sink more deeply into the 
minds of men, and that their kingdom is weakened 
and shaken at almost every note. There is no- 
thing, however, of which they have any right to 
complain." 2 

At the close of the following century the ver- 
sion of Sternhold and Hopkins was superseded by 

1 Zurich Letters, 1558-15 79. Epist. Tigurinae, p. 40. 
Cambridge, 1842, 8vo. 

2 Zurich Letters, p. 71. Parker Society, 1842, 8vo. 



Preface. xxxiii 

the new, but not superior version, of Brady and 
Tate. In Scotland, the old version of the Psalms 
by Sternhold and others was adopted in 1 564-5, 
with certain alterations, in having different transla- 
tions of forty-one Psalms in place of those pecu- 
liar to the English copies. 1 In this amended form 
it continued in use for nearly a century, until our 
present version was completed, and received, by 
authority both of Church and State, in May 1650. 



III. — Psalms by Cover dale andWedder- 
burn. 

There are two English metrical versions of 
select Psalms prior to those of Sternhold, which 
require to be specially noticed. The authors 
were Myles Coverdale, and, it is presumed, John 
Wedderburn. The first of these versions be- 
longs to the reign of Henry VIII. , and the only 
edition that seems to have been printed, could 
never have obtained much circulation in England ; 

1 See Knox's Works, vol. vi., pp. 334-340; Baillie's 
Letters and Journals, Appendix, vol. iii. 
c 



xxxiv Preface. 

and it became of such rarity as to be wholly un- 
known till a comparatively recent date, when the 
copy preserved in the Library of Queen's College, 
Oxford, was described by the Rev. Archdeacon 
Cotton, D.C.L., in his valuable work, a List of 
"Editions of the Bible and parts thereof in English," 
Oxford, 182 1, enlarged in 1 852, 8vo. This Psalter 
has since been reprinted in Cover dale's Remains, 
Lond. 1846, for the Parker Society, omitting the 
musical notes. The original title is as follows : — 

" Goostly Psalmes and Spirituall Songes drawen 
out of the holy Scripture, for the comforte and 
consolacyon of such as love to reioyse in God 
and his worde." (Colophon.) " Imprynted by 
me Johan Gough. Cum privilegio Regali." 4ft). 

On the title page, after short quotations from 
Psalm cxlvi., Collos. iii., and Jaco. v., are the 
following lines by the Author : — 

To the Boke. 
Go, lytle Boke, get the acquaintaunce 

Amonge the lovers of God's worde, 
Geue them occasyon the same to auaunce, 

And to make theyr songes of the Lorde, 

That they may thrust under the borde 
All other Ballettes of fylthynes, 

And that we all with one accorde 
May geue ensample of godlynes. 



Preface. xxxv 

Go, lytle Boke, amonge men's chyldren, 

And get the to theyr companye ; 
Teach them to synge the Commaundementes ten, 

And other Ballettes of God's glorye : 

Be not ashamed, I warrande the, 
Though thou be rude in songe and ryme, 

Thou shalt to youth some occasion be, 
In godly sportes to passe theyr tyme. 

This volume, which has no date of printing, 
is usually assigned to the year 1539, f rom tne c ^ r " 
cumstance that it appears in the List of prohibited 
books which Foxe, in the first edition of " The 
Booke of Martyrs" (p. 573), annexed to "Certane 
Injunctions" issued by Henry VIIL, 6th of Nov- 
ember 1539. He introduces the list with this note : 
" Hereafter folow the names of certen Bokes 
which either after this Injunction, or some other 
in the said Kinges daies, were prohibyted : the 
names of which bokes heare folowe in order ex- 
pressed." The books first named are works by 
Myles Coverdale; and include, — " Item, Psalmes 
and Songes, drawen, as is pretended, out of Holy 
Scripture." This list was unquestionably mis- 
placed: it should have accompanied what Foxe, 
at p. 676 of that edition, calls " A streight and 
cruell Proclamation, set forth and devised for 
the abolishing of English Bookes, about the same 



xxxv i Preface. 

time of the death of Anne Askew, the viii. of 
July, and the xxxviii. yere of the reigne of King 
Henry." — [A.D. 1 546] ; as upon examining the 
list, we find books named in it (some of John 
Bale's, for instance), which were not printed earlier 
than 1545 and 1 546. Foxe, when revising his great 
work for a second edition in 1570, at p. 1295, 
withdrew this list ; nor was it restored in any of the 
later impressions until the republication, edited by 
the Rev. R.S. Cattley (Lond. 1838, 8 vols., 8vo.), 
when it was inserted, under its proper year 1 546 
(vol. v. p. 565) ; omitting, however, what is of im- 
portance, the names of authors which the original 
edition has on the margin. 

Notwithstanding the date of Foxe's list, I con- 
sider that Coverdale's Psalms must have been print- 
ed between 1536 and 1540, during his residence in 
England. The books printed by or for John Gough 
extend from 1 536 to 1 543, and one, a Sermon 
by Osiander, " translated out of hye Almayn (or 
German) into Englyshe by Myles Coverdale," 
has the date 1 53 7. Now, it is well known that 
after the fall of his great patron, Thomas Cromwell, 
Earl of Essex (beheaded on the 28th July 1540), 
Coverdale made his escape to the Continent, where 
he remained till the accession of Edward VI. in 



Preface. xxxvii 

January I547> when he was recalled to England, 
and was, in I55 2 > promoted to the see of Exeter. 
His volume contains translations of thirteen Psalms , 
the 2, II, 14, 25, 46, 51 (two versions), 67, 124, 
128 (two versions), 130, 133, 137, and 147. 

In Coverdale's volume four of these Psalms are 
nearly verbatim with those in the present collec- 
tion. These are — 

Page 57. — I call on thee. Parker vol. p. 560. 

„ 119. — O God be mercyfull to us. „ 580. 

„ i%5. — My saull dois magnifie the Lord. „ $6$. 
„ 127. — Christ is the onlie Son of God. „ 553. 

A question might arise in regard to their author- 
ship. As fellow-exiles, Wedderburn and Cover dale 
may have been personally acquainted during their 
residence abroad, and the former might have con- 
tributed some portions to that volume. I do not 
imagine, however, that such was the case. Cover- 
dale himself makes no allusion either to the fact 
that most of the pieces were translations from the 
German, or to assistance received ; but his volume 
having been printed in England not later than the 
year 1539? selections from it must have found 
their way into the later collection of " Gude and 
Godlie Ballates," which has neither the name of 
author nor editor. So far as we know, it was not 



xxxviii Prefc 



ace. 



printed till nearly thirty years after the English 
Reformer had given to the world the earliest 
attempt that had been made in the English lan- 
guage to replace profane and licentious songs and 
ballads with sacred hymns and psalms, adapted 
for singing to suitable melodies, according to the 
practice in the Protestant churches in Germany. 

The editor of Coverdale's Remains, 1846, in 
republishing his psalms and hymns, was seem- 
ingly not aware of their German origin, or that 
they formed one of the many works which he 
employed himself, during his first exile, in trans- 
lating from one of the numerous volumes of Ger- 
man Hymns printed between 1524 and 1 53 7, as, 
" Psalmen und Geystliche Lieder " (Psalms 
and Spiritual Songs). In the list of Coverdale's 
works, given by his fellow-exile, Bishop Bale, 
one has the title of " Cantiones Wittenbergensium, 
Lib. i." 

Mr John Wedderburn, living as an exile in 
Germany, must have been familiar with the collec- 
tions of hymns by Luther and other contempo- 
raries ; and if we give him the credit of writing 
and translating most of the pieces which form 
the second portion of the present volume, he, 
like Coverdale, availed himself of the hymn- 



Preface. xxxix 

books then in circulation. Indeed, at page 74, 
it is expressly stated that the Psalms and other 
new pleasand Ballads were " Translated out of 
Euchiridion Psalmorum, to be sung." In the 
"Aufzahlung und Beschreibung der alten Deuts- 
chen Gesangbucher und Gesangblatter," (an Enu- 
meration and Description of the older German 
Song-books and Song-leaves), given by Dr Wac- 
kernagel, we find several volumes under the titles 
of Enchiridion and of Kirchenlieder, in 1 524 an d 
subsequent years, printed at Nuremburg, Stras- 
burg, Wittenburg, and other places. 

That both Wedderburn and Coverdale were in 
a great measure indebted to such collections, retain- 
ing, for the sake of the music, their peculiar form 
and structure, is too evident to be doubted. Several 
of these hymns having been derived from the com- 
mon source of the Latin hymns sung by the primi- 
tive Christians, as handed down frorn one age to 
another, although translated at different times and 
into different languages, would necessarily retain a 
kind of family likeness. 

It is quite impossible, with the scanty informa- 
tion we possess, to assign the various Spiritual 
Songs and Psalms contained in the present col- 
lection to the respective authors or translators. 



xl Preface. 

Each of the three Wedderburns may have con- 
tributed to this Miscellany, 

Tres paribus studiis, tres pietate pares. 1 

If their names are to be associated with the pre- 
sent collection, I would conjecture that the Second 
portion was chiefly the work of Mr John Wed- 
derburn, while residing in Germany •, and that the 
Third portion, consisting of parodies or alterations 
of Popular Songs or Ballads, might more properly 
be assigned to his younger brother, the Vicar of 
Dundee. Judging from the language, we might 
have attributed the composition of most of these 
" Godlie Ballates" to the middle of the sixteenth 
century ; but, looking at the history of the reputed 
authors, the year 154° would require to be given 
as the more precise date. 

Knox, in his History of the Reformation, re- 
cords that the night before George Wishart's 
apprehension at Ormiston, — that is, the night 
preceding the 1 6th of January 1545*6, — " After 
suppar he [Wishart] held confortable purpose of 
the death of Goddis chosen childrin, and mearely 
[merrily] said, 'Methink that I desyre earnestlye 
to sleap ; ' and thairwith he said, ' Will we sing a 

1 See supra, p. xxv. 



Preface. xli 

Psalme?' and so he appointed the 51st Psalme, 
which was put in Scotishe meter, and begane 

thus : — 

Have mercy on me now, good Lord, 
After thy great mercy, &c." 

It will be seen that these lines occur in the second 
verse of that psalme, in the present collection, p. 
I04. Nearly similar words, however, may be 
found in other translations ; but there is no good 
reason to call in question that this version was the 
one which Wishart used on the occasion referred 
to, without admitting that the entire collection 
then existed in a printed form. Knox, under 
the year 1555, also says that Elizabeth Adam- 
son, a little before her death, " desyred hir sisteris, 
and some otheris that was besyd hir, to sing a 
psalme, and amonges otheris she appointed the 
103 Psalme, begynnyng — My sau/e, praise thou the 
Lord alwyesT 1 In the note to this passage, I said 
" This was apparently a metrical version of Psalm 
103, but the line does not correspond with any of 
the known versions of the Psalms in metre. The 

1 Knox's Works, vol. i. p. 139. In the note to this 
passage, and also at p. 531 of the Appendix, I inadver- 
tently called the Vicar of Dundee John Wedderburn. 
He is so called by Pitscottie, see supra, p. xviii. It was 
his brother Robert who appears to have held this office. 



xlii Prefc 



ace. 



Wedderburns, however, may have versified a 
greater number of psalms than those contained 
in the volume best known as ' The Gude and 
Godlie Ballates.'" 1 At the time, I overlooked the 
fact that these words form the commencement of 
Psalm 146, being one of the seven which were 
contributed by John Hopkins as his first addition to 
Sternhold's, and as such printed in the year 1551. 2 
Knox, in 1 56 1, quotes Sternhold's version of Psalm 
I03, v. ip — The hevins hie ar maid the seat? 

At the close of the sixteenth century the pre- 
sent collection of psalms and spiritual songs would 
seem to have passed under the name of The Dun- 
dee Psalms, thus contributing to fix the place 
of its origin. In the inventories of some of the 
Edinburgh booksellers and printers, copies of 
various editions of the Psalms occur. 4 In parti- 
cular, in Bassandyne's inventory, who died 1 8th 
October 1577, there were 323 "Douglas Psalmes, 
price the pece vi. d. Summa, ^8, Is. 6d. ;" 
Item, "150 Douglas Psalmes, with Quene Ka- 

1 Knox's Works, vol. i. p. 246. 

2 See the Rev. Mr Livingston's very elaborate introduc- 
tion to his handsome edition of " The Scottish Metrical 
Psalter, of A.D. 1635." Glasgow, 1864, folio. 

3 Knox's Works, vol. ii. p. 154. 

4 Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. ii. pp. 191-233. 



Preface. xl 



in 



tharine Prayer, the pece x. d. Summa, £6, 5s." 
What collection this was, unless the name was 
written by mistake, I cannot conjecture. But in 
the stock of Robert Smyth, bookseller, who died 
1st May 1602, we find, — "Item, ane thowsand 
xxxiiij. [1034] Dundie Psalmes." Of Smyth's 
edition of the present volume, in 1 600, only one 
copy has reached our days. 

But popular as this collection may have been at 
that time, it neither was authorised by the Gene- 
ral Assembly, nor was it known to have ever been 
employed in the public services of the Church. But 
the same cause which rendered Luther's hymns 
so popular in Germany may have produced a 
similar effect in this country subsequent to the 
Reformation, — by the adaptation of devotional 
poetry to popular tunes. 

Another circumstance that falls to be noticed in 
connexion with the name of Wedderburn is the 
authorship of that curious little prose work, The 
Complaynt of Scotland, printed, it is supposed, at 
St Andrews in 1 549. Two "slight and contra- 
dictory notices constitute (says Dr Ley den) all the 
information which has as yet been discovered con- 
cerning the author." In the catalogues of the Har- 



xliv Preface. 

leian Library, 1742 and 1745, a copy of the book 
is twice entered as " Vedderburn's Complainte of 
Scotland," 1 549. It was conjectured that Wed- 
derburn's name might have occurred on the title- 
page, which is not preserved in any existing copy. 
On the other hand, Dr George Mackenzie, who 
is extremely innaccurate in his statements, de- 
scribes the work as having been written by a Sir 
James Inglis, knight, who, he says, died at Cul- 
ross in 1554. It is quite clear that he confounded 
some imaginary person with the Sir James Inglis, 
Abbot of Culross, whom Sir D. Lyndsay com- 
memorates among the Scottish Poets, but who was 
murdered in 1531. Regarding Inglis's claim, I 
may refer to a long note in Dunbar's Poems, vol. 
ii. p. 398. Dr Ley den, in republishing the Com- 
playnt itself (Edinburgh, 180 1 ), attempted, but 
not successfully, to establish a claim for Sir David 
Lyndsay to have been the author. 

As this question of authorship is one in the 
literary history of Scotland which some persons 
may consider to be of greater interest than even 
that of " The Godlie Ballates," I may add a few 
words on the subject. I do not apprehend that 
the name either of author or printer occurred 
in the book itself. The Harleian copy was pro- 



Preface. xlv 

bably obtained by Harley, Earl of Oxford, with 
other similar books relating to Scotland, from 
James Anderson, author of the Diplomat a Scotia:, 
and it may have had the name of Vedderburn 
written on the title-page or fly-leaf. In the note 
to Dunbar's Poems, to which I have just re- 
ferred, I was not foolish enough to indorse Dr 
George Mackenzie's account of Sir James Inglis, 
knight, when pointing out that another priest of 
that name, also one of the Pope's Knights, was 
alive after " The Complaynt of Scotland" had 
appeared in 1549. But an old obscure chaplain, 
whose name is in no way connected w ; th history 
or literature, may now be summarily set aside for 
that of Wedderburn. 

The ordinary statements that the three brothers 
Wedderburn became exiles on account of reli- 
gion, and the supposed time of their decease, 
seemed to place their claims out of the question. 
According to Johnston's verses, printed at p. xxv., 
John Wedderburn, indeed, is said to have been driven 
into exile in 1 546, and to have died in England in 
1556. But these dates cannot be relied upon — as 
we know that he was in exile in 1539 — an( ^> 
after Cardinal Beaton's death in 1 546, there was 
something like toleration in Scotland, which can- 



xlvi Preface. 

not be said to have existed in England during the 
fires of persecution in Queen Mary's reign (1553 
to 1558). Mr Robert Wedderburn, Vicar of 
Dundee, having, however, survived till after the 
date of printing, leads me now to add, that, not- 
withstanding some apparent discrepancies, by far 
the most probable conjecture is, that he was the 
author of The Complaynt. Indeed, from what has 
been stated above, as the Vicar, in 1553, was still 
alive, and officially connected with the Romish 
Church, I have little hesitation in assigning to Mr 
Robert Wedderburn, Vicar of Dundee, the 
credit of being the author of that remarkable pro- 
duction, The Complaynt of Scotland, printed 
(at St Andrews) in 1549- In coming to this conclu- 
sion we have his residence in the vicinity of St An- 
drews, the general tone and character of the book, 
as conveying the sentiments of one who was perhaps 
inclined in his heart to be a Reformer, although re- 
taining his connexion with the Romish Church, and 
who imitated Sir David Lyndsay in exposing (with a 
deal of pedantic learning) the prevailing abuses of 
the time ; and more especially his familiarity with the 
popular literature of the time, while enumerating the 
names of songs, dances, &c, of which Dr Leyden 
mentions seven among those which Wedderburn 



Preface. xlvii 

himself is supposed to have ' ' metamorphosed " in the 
present collection of' ' Gude and Godli e Ballates." 

It is generally admitted that this collection of 
Godly Ballads was not only popular, but had con- 
siderable influence on the minds of the common 
people, who could easily appreciate words sung 
to popular airs. The number of such satirical in- 
vectives against the corruptions and abuses which 
prevailed in the Romish Church, could not fail to 
enlighten the ignorant portion of the laity, and tend 
to facilitate the progress of the Reformed doctrines. 

It is to be observed that no mention of the 
Wedderburns, by Knox or others, is met with 
until the days of James Melville, when he refers 
to an unknown edition of the present volume 
about 1570. In giving an account of his edu- 
cation at the school of Montrose, he relates, 
in his autobiography, that in the year 1 57 1 John 
Erskine, the Laird of Dun, " dwelt oft in the 
town, and of his charitie interteined a blind man, 
wha had a singular guid voice. Him he caused 
the Doctor (teacher) of our school teach the 
whole Psalms in metre, with the toones thereof, 
and sing them in the kirk ; be hearing of whom I 
was so delyted, that I learned many of the psalms 



xlviii Preface. 

and toones thereof in metre, quhilk I have thought 

ever sensyne a great blessing and comfort 

" There was also there a post (a carrier or mes- 
senger) that frequented Edinburgh, and brought 
hame Psalme- books and Ballates, namely, of 
Robert Semple's making, wherein I took plea- 
sure, and learned some thing baith of the estate of 
the Countrie, and of the measours and cullors of 
Scottes ryme. He shew me first Wedderburn's 
Songs, wherof I learned diverse par cceur (by 
heart), with great diversitie of toones." l 

In like manner, Mr John Row, minister of 
Carnock (1592-1646), and son of John Row, 
the Reformer, minister of Perth (1560-1580), in 
his History of the Kirk of Scotland, under the 
year 1558, mentions certain books which were 
sett out, " whereby many in Scotland got some 
knowledge of God's trueth," and, along with 
Sir David Lyndsay's writings, he enumerates 
"Wedderburn's Psalmes and Godly Ballads, 
changeing many of the old Popish Songs unto 
godlie purposes." 2 

1 Autobiography and Diary of James Melville, Bann. 
Club edition, 1829, 4to, p. 18. Edinb. Wodrow Society 
edition, pp. 22, 23, 1842, 8vo. 

2 Wodrow Society edition, 1846, p. 6. 



Preface. xli 



IX 



IV. — Profane Songs Spiritualized. 



It is not likely that I am singular in expressing a 
wish that the original songs and ballads which the 
Wedderburns " changed to godly purposes " had 
also been preserved. Several of these, no doubt, 
were of an indecent character, but others, like 
such satirical effusions containing references to 
local and personal as well as public events, would 
have furnished curious and interesting illustrations 
of popular literature, and of the history and man- 
ners of the time. It has so happened that of these 
"ballatis, sangis, and rhymes," in a printed form, 
not one is known to exist, although they were 
extensively circulated in the face of prohibitions 
by Acts of Parliament, Acts of Town-Councils, 
and Canons issued by the Clergy. 

In referring to "the Gude and Godlie Bal- 
lates," Dr M'Crie gives the following informa- 
tion: — 

" The title (he says) sufficiently indicates their 
nature and design. The air, the measure, the 
initial line, or the chorus of the ballads most com- 

D 



1 Preface. 

monly sung by the people at that time, were 
transferred to hymns of devotion. Unnatural, 
indelicate, and gross as this association appears to 
us, these spiritual songs edified multitudes in that 
age. We must not think that this originated in 
any peculiar depravation of taste in our reform- 
ing countrymen. Spiritual songs, constructed 
upon the same principle, were common in Italy — 
(Roscoe's Lorenzo de Medici, vol. i. p. 300, 
4to). At the beginning of the Reformation, 
the very same practice was adopted in Holland 
as in Scotland. 

"The Protestants first sung in their families 
and private assemblies the Psalms of the noble 
Lord of Nievelte, which he published in 1 540, ut 
homines ab amatoriis, haud raro obscoenis, aliisque 
vanis canticis, quibus omnia in urbibus et vicis 
personabant, avocaret. Sed quia modulationes 
vanarum cantionum (alias enim homines non tene- 
bant) adhibuerat, 1 ' &c. — "Gisberti Voetii Politica 
Ecclesiastica, torn. i. p. 534 — Amstadod. 1 663, 
410. Florimond de Remond objected to the 
Psalms of Marot, that the airs of some of them 
were borrowed from vulgar ballads. A Roman 
Catholic version of the Psalms in Flemish verse, 
printed at Antwerp by Simon Cock, in 1540, has 



Preface. li 

the first line of a ballad printed at the head of 
every psalm." 1 

The passage from Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo de 
Medici mentioned by Dr M'Crie may be quoted 
as follows : — 

" In an ancient collection of Laude, or Hymns, 
printed at Venice in 15 12, I find that several of 
these devout pieces are directed to be sung to the 
air of Ben venga Maggio. From this collection it 
appears that it was then a general custom in Italy, 
as it now is, or lately was, the practice of a cer- 
tain sect in this country, to sing pious hymns to 
the most profane and popular melodies, for the 
purpose of stimulating the languid piety of the 
performers, by an association with the vivacity of 
sensual enjoyments. Thus the hymn Jesu sommo 
diletto, is sung to the music of Leggiadra damigella; 
Jesu fammi morire, to that of Vaga bella e gentile; 
Genet rice di Dio, to that of Dolce anima mia; and 
Crucifisso a capo chino, to that of Una Donna 
(Famorjino, one of the most indecent pieces in the 
Canzoni a hallo " 2 

In order to appropriate the original airs in the 

1 Bayle, Diet. art. Marot, note N ; M'Crie's Life of Knox, 
vol. i. p. 379, % vols. Edinb. 1831, 8vo. 

2 Roscoe's Lorenzo de Medici, vol. i. p. 309, edit. 1796. 



Hi Preface. 

German Gesangbuchs, it has already been re- 
marked, the same structure of verse was adopted 
by Wedderburn as well as by Coverdale, which 
to some extent rendered their translations less 
flowing and easy. But the great object which 
both of them had in view, and of which Cover- 
dale may claim the merit of being the first in the 
English language to have made the attempt, was 
to replace profane and licentious songs and bal- 
lads with sacred hymns and metrical psalms. In 
England, Sternhold's Psalms were harmonized by 
various persons. There is a rare edition in four 
parts or separate volumes, imprinted at London, 
by John Daye, in 1563, professing to be "The 
whole Psalmes in foure partes, whiche may be song 
to al Musical Instrumentes, set forth for the en- 
crease of Vertue, and abolyshyng of uther vayne 
and triflyng Ballates.' , Another has this title, 
"The Psalmes of David in English Meter, with 
Notes of foure partes set unto them by Gulielmo 
Damon, for John Bull, to the use of the godly 
Christians for recreating themselves instede of 
fond and unseemely Ballades. Anno 1579," ob- 
long quarto. This was republished, in 1585? by 
Iohn Cosyn, and in 1591? by W. Swayne. But 
these were superseded by Thomas Este's Psalter of 



Preface. liii 

1592, 1 and by Thomas Ravens croft's Psalms and 
Hymns, in 162 1 and 1633. In Scotland, the 
Psalms in four parts, were not published until 
1635. The Scottish Psalter of 1566, by Thomas 
Wood, has, it may be said, been only lately dis- 
covered. According to his statement, the Parts 
of the Psalm Tunes " conform to the Tenor" were 
set in harmony by David Peblis, one of the Canons 
of St Andrews, at the special request of the Prior, 
afterwards Earl of Murray, and Regent of Scot- 
land. 2 Alexander Hume, in his Hymnes and Spiri- 
tuall Songs, printed in 1 599, in his address "To 
the Scottish Youth," makes use of similar arguments 
with Coverdale in recommending poetry of a re- 
ligious nature instead of " that naughty subject of 
fleshly and unlawfull love. In such sort (he adds), 
that in Princes Courts, in the houses of greate men, 
and at the assemblies of yong gentilmen and yong 
damesels, the chief e pastime is, to sing profane 

1 Republished by Dr E. F. Rimbault for the Musical 
Antiquarian Society, 1844, with a learned introduction. 

2 Three of the original volumes are now in my posses- 
sion ; the Contra tenor ; required for completing the set, has 
not been recovered. Two volumes of a duplicate set (the 
Treble and Bassus) are in the University Library, Edin- 
burgh. See notices of the MSS. in a forthcoming volume 
of Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 



liv Preface. 

sonnets, and vaine ballats of love, or to rehearse 
some fabulos faits of Palmerine, Amadis, or other 
such like raveries." l 

Myles Coverdale, in the preface to his " Goostly 
Psalmes and Spirituall Songes," thus urges the pro- 
priety of his attempt to supply the place of the pro- 
fane and licentious ballads which were in ordinary 
circulation. The greater part of this address is 
equally suitable to Wedderburn's volume, as the 
following extracts will evince: — 

» 
" Myles Coverdale unto the christian 

READER." 

(After some general remarks on the unthankful- 
ness manifested to the Father of Mercy for spiri- 
tual benefits, he exclaims : — ) 

"O that men would praise the goodness of the 
Lord, and the wonders that he doth for the chil- 
dren of men! O that we would remember what 
great things the Father of Mercy hath done, doth 
daily, and is ever ready to do, for our souls ! O 
that men's lips were so opened, that their mouths 
might shew the praise of God ! Yea, would God 
that our Minstrels had none other thing to play 

1 Reprinted for the Bannatyne Club, 1832, 4to. 



Preface. lv 

upon, neither our carters and ploughmen other 
things to whistle upon, save psalms, hymns, and 
such godly songs as David is occupied withal! 
And if women, sitting at their rocks, or spinning 
at the wheels, had none other songs to pass their 
time withal, than such as Moses' sister, Glehana's 
wife, Debora, and Mary the mother of Christ, 
have sung before them, they should be better 
occupied than with Hey nony nony, Hey troly loly, and 
such like phantasies. 

"If young men also that have the gift of sing- 
ing, took their pleasure in such wholesome ballads 
as the three Children sing in the fire, and as Jesus 
the Son of Sirac doth in his last chapter, it were a 
token, both that they felt some spark of God's 
love in their hearts, and that they also had some 
love unto him ; for truly, as we love, so sing we ; 
and where our affection is, thence cometh our 
mirth and joy. . ..... 

"Seeing, then, that, as the prophet David saith, 
it is so good and pleasant a thing to praise the 
Lord, and so expedient for us to be thankful; 
therefore, to give our youth of England some 
occasion to change their foul and corrupt ballads 
into sweet songs and spiritual hymns of God's 



lvi Preface. 

honour, and for their own consolation in him, I 
have here, good reader, set out certain comfortable 
songs grounded on God's word, and taken some 
out of the holy scripture, specially out of the 
Psalms of David, all whom would God that our 
musicians would learn to make their songs ! And 
if they which are disposed to be merry, would in 
their mirth follow the counsel of St Paul and St 
James, and not to pass their time in naughty 
songs of fleshly love and wantonness, but with 
singing of psalms, and such songs as edify, and 
corrupt not men's conversation. 

" As for the common sort of Ballads which now 
are used in the world, I report me to every good 
man's conscience, what wicked fruits they bring. 
Corrupt they not the manners of young persons ? 

" By this thou mayst perceave what spiritual 
edifying cometh of Godly Psalms and Songs of 
God's word; and what inconvenience followeth 
the corrupt Ballads of this vain world. Now, be- 
loved Reader, thou seest the occasion of this my 
small labour : wherefore, if thou perceavest that 
the very word of God is the matter thereof, I pray 
thee accept it, use it, and provoke youth unto the 
same. And if thou feelest in thine heart, that all 



Preface. lvii 

the Lord's dealing is very mercy and kindness, 
cease not then to be thankful unto him therefore : 
but in thy mirth be always singing of him, that 
his blessed name may be praised now and ever. 
Amen." l 

The last poem in Coverdale's volume of 
" Goostly Psalmes and Spiritual! Songes," is more 
of a satirical cast than the others. It is too long 
to quote entire, but the first four of twelve verses 
may be given ; and it may suggest whether other 
pieces in the present collection, besides the four 
which are pointed out in the Notes, might not also 
claim him as the writer : — 

LET GO THE WHORE OF BABILON. 
Let go the Whore of Babilon, 

Her kyngdome falleth sore ; 
Her merchauntes begyne to make theyr mone, 

The Lorde be praysed therefore. 
Theyr ware is naught, it wyll not be bought, 

Great falsheed is founde therm ; 
Let go the Whore of Babilon, 

The mother of al synne. 
No man wyll drynke her wyne any more, 

The poyson is come to lyghte; 
That maketh her marchauntes to wepe so sore, 

The blynde have gotten theyr syghte. 

1 Works of Myles Coverdale — Remains, p. 537. Par- 
ker Society, 1846. 8vo. 



lviii Preface. 

For now we se God's grace frelye 

In Christ offred us so fayre: 
Let go the Whore of Babilon, 

And bye no more her ware. 

Of Christen bloude so much she shed 

That she was dronken withall ; 
But no we God's worde hath broken her head, 

And she hath gotten a fall. 
God hath raysed some men in dede, 

To utter her great wickednesse : 
Let go the Whore of Babilon 

And her ungodlynesse. 

Ye ypocrites, what can ye saye? 

Wo be unto you all ! 
Ye have begyled us many a daye; 

Heretikes ye did us call, 
For lovynge the worde of Christ the Lorde, 

Whom ye do alwaye resiste. 
Let go the Whore of Babilon, 

That rydeth upon the Beast. 

In the volume known as the Aberdeen Cantus 
(editions, 1666-1682), there is a later but by no 
means a happy adaptation of a popular song. The 
song itself, Come Love let's walk, seems to have 
first appeared in the "Canzonets to three voyces, 
newly composed by Henry Youll, practicioner in 
the Art of Musicke," Lond. 1608, which has also 
a second part, In yonder dale, and a third part, See 






Preface. lix 

where this ny?nphe. 1 Not having YoulTs collection 
to compare, it is sufficient, for the present object, 
to copy the first verse from the Aberdeen Cantus, 
and also the first of three verses of the imitation : — 

The XIV. SONG. 
Come, Love, let's walk in yonder spring, 
Where we shall hear the Blackbird sing, 
The Robin red-breast, and the Thrush, 
The Nightingale in thorny bush, 
The Mavis sweetly caroling : 

This to my Love, this to my Love, 
Content will bring. 

Another of the same. 
Come, Lord, let's walk on Sion Hill, 
There to remain for ever still ; 
Where Prophets, 'Postles, and just folk, 
With Martyrs on a row do walk, — 
The Angels sweetly caroling : 
This to my soul, this to my soul, 
Content shall bring. 

In concluding these notices, I have to acknow- 
ledge that my attention to various points connected 
with the origin of portions of this volume, as hav- 
ing been translated from the German, was specially 
called by my Reverend friend Professor Mit- 
chell of St Andrews. He himself has fully and 
1 Rimbault's Musical Bibliography, p. 27. 



lx Preface. 

ably illustrated the subject in a Lecture, recently 
published, including in the Appendix several of 
the German hymns, and of Cover dale's in parallel 
columns with the corresponding " Godlie Bal- 
lates." It is entitled — 

"The Wedderburns, and their Work on the 
Sacred Poetry of the Scottish Reformation, in its 
Historical Relation to that of Germany : A Lec- 
ture by Alex. F. Mitchell, D.D., Professor of 
Hebrew, St Andrews. Wm. Blackwood and 
Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1867." 4to, pp. 88. 

I have gladly availed myself, in the Notes, of 
the author's learned researches. 

I have also much pleasure in expressing my 
best thanks to S. Christie Miller, Esq., of 
Craigentinny, for the liberal use of the original 
edition of 1 578; and to Mr James Walker, for 
carefully revising and enlarging so fully that por- 
tion of the Glossary subjoined to Sir John Graham 
Daly ell's " Scotish Poems of the Sixteenth Cen- 
tury," which is applicable to " the Godlie Ballates." 

DAVID LAING. 

1867. 



ANE 

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in goolie fangitf, fot auopoing of 
fin anD tjatlatvie. ftOitlj aug- 
mentation of finbtie guoe 
ano goolie IBallatiss 
not rontenit in tfje 
ffrfi eoitioun. 

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Cbinburgfi belOHNEROS 

for Henrie Chatteris. 

M. D. LXXVIII. 

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January xxxi. dayis. 



iii 
xi 


A 
b 
c 
d 


Circumcifion. 
At viij. and iiij. 


i 

ii 
iii 
iv 


xix 
viii 

xvi 

V 


e 
f 

g 

A 

b 


Epiphanie. 
The 6. day the three wyfe men 
acknawledged Chrift, and offerit 
giftis vnto him. 


V 

vi 

vii 

viii 

ix 


xiii 
ii 


c 

d 
e 
f 


Sunne in Aquarius. 
S. Mungo in Glafgow, a Fair. 


X 

xi 
xii 
xiii 


X 


g 
A 




xiv 

XV 


xviii 


b 




xvi 


vii 


c 




xvii 


XV 

iv 


d 
e 
f 


The 19. day the middis of Wyn- 
ter efter Ptolomie. 


xviii 
xix 

XX 


xii 
i 

ix 


g 
A 

b 

c 

d 


At vij. and ane half, and iiij. and 
ane half. 

Converfioun of Paull. 


xxi 
xxii 
xxiii 
xxiv 

XXV 




e 




xxvi 


xvii 


f 




xxvii 


vi 


g 
A 




xxviii 
xxix 


xiv 


b 




XXX 


iii 


c 




xxxi 



February xxviii. dayis. 





d 




i 


xi 


e 


Purificatioun of Marie. 


ii 


xix 


f 




iii 


viii 


g 




iiii 




A 




V 


xvi 


b 




vi 


V 


c 


The 8. day, the beginning of the 


vii 




d 


Spring time, among the Romanes, 


viii 


xiii 


e 


efter Plinius. 


ix 


ii 


f 


At vij. and v. 


X 




g 


Sunne in Pifces. 


xi 


x 


A 




xii 




b 




xiii 


xviii 


c 




xiiii 


vii 


d 




XV 




e 




xvi 


XV 


f 




xvii 


iv 


g 




xviii 




A 




xix 


xii 


b 




XX 


i 


c 




xxi 




d 




xxii 


ix 


e 


The place of the Leip zeir. 


xxiii 




f 


Mathew Apoftle. 


xxiiii 


xvii 


g 




XXV 


vi 


A 




xxvi 




b 


At vij. and ane half, and v. and 


xxvii 


xiv 


c 


ane half. 


xxviii 



Marcbe xxxi. dayls. 



xj 


d 
e 


In 5. Monence ane Fair. 


1 
ii 


iij 


f 


The iij. day the Temple of Je- 


iii 




g 


rufalem was buyldit againe, 


iiii 


xix 


A 


and confecratit with greit fo- 


V 


viii 


b 


lempnitie. Efdra 6. befoir the 


vi 




c 


birth of Chrift 5 1 5. zeiris. 


vii 


xvj 


d 




viii 


V 


e 




ix 




f 


at vi. and vi. 


X 


xiii 


g 


Sone in Aries. 


xi 


iii 


A 




xii 




b 




xiii 


X 


c 




xiiii 




d 




XV 


xviii 


e 


Aprilis. 


xvi 


vii 


f 


S. Patrik in Dunbartane ane 


xvii 




g 


Fair. 


xviii 


XV 


A 




xix 


iiii 


b 


S. Cudbert in Langtoun in the 


XX 




c 


Mers ane Fair. 


xxi 


xii 


•d 




xxii 




e 




xxiii 




f 




xxiiii 


ix 


g 


Lady day in the weft Wemis 


XXV 




A 


ane Fair. 


xxvi 


xvii 


b 


The 25. day Veneis was be- 


xxvii 


vi 


c 


gun to be buyldit, anno 423. 


xxviii 




d 




xxix 


xiiii 


e 




XXX 


ii 


f 




xxxi 



April xxx. day is. 



xj 


g 
A 


The firft day Rome was de- 


1 

ii 


xix 


b 


ftroyit be Alarik king of Go- 


iii 


viij 


c 


this, efter ij. zeiris feige. anno 


iiii 


xvj 

V 


d 
e 
f 


412. Blondus. The Temple 
of Jerufalem is purgit from 
Adolatrie be king Ezechias. 


V 

vi 
vii 




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2. Paral. 29. 


viii 


xiij 
ij 


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X 




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at v. and vi. 


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xiii 


xviij 


f 


Maij. 


xiiii 


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g 




XV 


XV 


A 

b 


The 1 1 . day Jofue circumcifeth 
the pepill in Gilgall. Jos. 5. 


xvi 
xvii 


iiii 


c 




xviii 


xii 


d 
e 


The 18. day the pepill paffit 
faif throw the reid fey, and 


xix 

XX 


J 


f 


Pharao with his Oift drownit. 


xxi 




g 


Exod. 14. 15. 


xxii 


ix 


A 




xxiii 




b 




xxiiii 


xvii 


c 


Mark Euangell. 


XXV 


v j 


d 




xxvi 




e 




xxvii 


xiiii 


f 




xxviii 


»j 


g 
A 


at iiij. and ane half, 
and vij. and ane half. 


xxix 
xxx 



Mail xxxL dayis. 



xi 


b 


Philip and Jacob. 


i 


xix 


c 
d 


Haly Croce day in Kinnocher 


11 
iii 


viii 


e 


and in Peblis ane Fair. 


iiii 




f 




V 


xvi 


g 


The 6. day Rome was takin 


vi 


V 


A 


be the Duke of Burbone. an. 


vii 




b 


1527. 


viii 


xiii 


c 




ix 


ii 


d 




X 




e 


Sone in Gemini. 


xi 


X 


f 




xii 




g 




xiii 


xviii 


A 




xiv 


vii 


b 


The 15. day God did raine 


XV 




c 


Manna to the pepill. Exo. 15. 


xvi 


XV 


d 




xvii 


iiii 


e 


The 17. day Noe enterit in 


xviii 




f 


the Arke. Gene. 7. 


xix 


xii 


g 




XX 


i 


A 


at iiij. and viij. 


xxi 




b 




xxii 


ix 


c 




xxiii 




d 




xxiiii 


xvii 


e 




XXV 


vi 


f 




xxvi 




g 


The 27. day Noe came furth 


xxvii 


xiiii 


A 


of the arke. Genef. 8. 9. 


xxviii 


iii 


b 


The 29. day Conftantinople was 


xxix 




c 


takin be Mahomete. 


XXX 


xi 


d 




xxxi 



Jane xxx. dayls. 





e 


1 he hrit day the pepiil or 


llra- 


1 


xix 


f 


ell come in the hill of Sinai 


L : v- 


ii 


viii 


g 


therwife callit Callus, & 


thair 


iii 


XV 


A 


abaid almaift ane zeir. Exc 


). 19. 


iiii 


V 


b 






V 




c 


The vi. day Alexander the 


greit 


vi 


xiij 


d 


is borne. 




vii 


ij 


e 
f 






viii 
ix 


X 


g 






x 




A 


S. Barnabie, Lawder fair 


xi 


xviii 


b 






xii 


vii 


c 


Sone in Cancer. 




xiii 




d 


Junij langeft day. 




xiiii 


XV 


e 






XV 


iiii 


f 
g 


Quarter before iij. 




xvi 
xvii 


xii 


A 






xviii 


J 


b 


The 19. day James the 


Sext 


xix 




c 


king of Scotland was borne 


XX 


ix 


d 
e 


Anno. 1566. 




xxi 
xxii 


xviii 


f 






xxiii 


vi 


g 


S. Jhone in S. Johnftoun 




xxiiii 




A 


ane Fair. 




XXV 


xiiij 


b 






xxvi 


iij 


c 

d 






xxvii 
xxviii 


xi 


e 
f 


Peter [A]poftle. 




xxix 
xxx 



July xxxi. day is. 



XIX 

viii 


g 
A 




b 


xvi 


c 


V 


d 




e 


xiii 


f 


ii 


g 
A 


X 


b 




c 


xviii 


d 


vii 


e 




f 


XV 

iv 


g 
A 




b 


xii 


c 


i 


d 




e 


ix 


f 


xvii 


g 
A 


vi 


b 




c 


xiv 


d 


iii 


e 




f 


xi 
xix 


g 
A 




b 



1 

ii 

iii 

iiii 

v 

Canicular dayis begin. vi 

at iiij. and vij. vii 

The 8. day John Hus was brunt viii 

in the Counfall of Conftance, ix 

for the treuth, 141 5. x 

xi 

Sun in Leo. xii 

xiii 

xiiii 

xv 

The 16. Rome wes overthro- xvi 

wen be the Galles, befoir Chriftis xvii 

birth 376 zeiris. xviii 

xix 

xx 

xxi 

Marie Magdalene. In Linlith- xxii 

gow, and Pettenweme, ane Fair. xxiii 

xxiiii 
S. James. In Cowper of Fyfe, xxv 
in Lanerk, and in auld Rox- xxvi 
burgh, ane Fair. xxvii 

xxviii 
This 29. James the Sext King of xxix 
Scotland wes crowned in Striuiling xxx 
the fecondzeirofhis age, Anno 1 567. xxxi 



1A1 iA) 1A1 1/ i 



VIS. 



viii 


c 


Lambes day, in Inuerkething, 


, 


xvi 


d 


in San&androis, and in Dunbar- 


ii 


V 


e 


tane, ane Fair. 


iii 




f 




iiii 


xiii 


g 




V 


ii 


A 




vi 




b 




vii 


X 


c 




viii 




d 




ix 


xviii 


e 


S. Laurence, in Selkirk, in Dun- 


X 


vii 


f 


blane, and in the Raine, ane 


xi 




g 


Fair. 


xii 


XV 


A 


at v. and vij. 


xiii 


iv 


b 




xiiii 




c 


Lady day. In Dundee, ane Fair. 


XV 


xii 


d 


Sun in Virgo. 


xvi 


i 


e 




xvii 




f 




xviii 


ix 


g 


The 19. day Oftavius Auguftus 


xix 




A 


the Emperour died, the 79. zeir 


XX 


xvii 


b 


of his age, efter Chriftis birth 


xxi 


vi 


c 


1 6. zeiris. 


xxii 




d 




xxiii 


xiv 


e 


Bartholomew Apoftle, in Lin- 


xxiiii 


iii 


f 


lithgow, and in Kincarne of 


XXV 




g 


Neill, ane Fair. 


xxvi 


xi 


A 




xxvii 


xix 


b 




xxviii 




c 


S. Johnis day, in S. Johnftoun. 


xxix 


viii 


d 


at v. and ane half, 


XXX 




e 


and v. and ane half. 


xxxi 



September xxx. day is. 



XVJ 


t 




1 


V 


g 




ii 




A 




iii 


xiii 


b 




iiii 


ij 


c 


Heir endis the Canicular dayis. 


V 




d 




vi 


X 


e 




vii 




f 


Lady day in Striuiling and^Dun- 


viii 


xviii 


g 


die ane fair. 


ix 


vii 


A 




X 




b 




xi 


XV 


c 


at vi. and vi. 


xii 


iiii 


d 




xiii 




e 


Rude day in Craill and Jed- 


xiiii 


xii 


f 


burgh ane fair. 


XV 


j 


g 


Sone in Libra. 


xvi 




A 


Nicht and day of ane lenth. 


xvii 


ix 


b 




xviii 




c 




xix 


xvii 


d 


Mathew Apoftle in Linlithgow 


XX 


vj 


e 


ane fair. 


xxi 




f 




xxii 


xiiii 


g 




xxiii 


iii 


A 




xxiiii 




b 




XXV 


xi 


c 




xxvi 


xix 


d 


at vi. and ane half, and v. and 


xxvii 




e 


ane half. 


xxviii 


viii 


f 


S. Michael in Hadingtoun, in 


xxix 




R 


Leflie, and in Air ane fair. 


xxx 



October xxxi. dayis. 



xvi 


A 




i 


V 


b 


The firft day the feift of the 


ii 


xiii 


c 


Trumpettis in remembrance that 


iii 


ij 


d 


Isaac was delyverit from the 


iiii 




e 


Sacrifying. Leuit. 23. 


V 


X 


f 




vi 




g 




vii 


xviii 


A 




viii 


vii 


b 


S. Dinneis in Atoun in the Mers 


ix 




c 


& in Peblis ane fair. 


X 


XV 


d 




xi 


iiii 


e 




xii 




f 


at vii. and v. 


xiii 


xii 


g 


Sone in Scorpio. 


xiiii 




A 




XV 




b 


Nouembris. 


xvi 


ix 


c 




xvii 




d 


S. Luke in Lawder, in Kin- 


xviii 


xviii 


e 


rofcheir, and in Ruglane ane 


xix 


vi 


f 


Fair. 


XX 




g 


The 15. day the feift of the Ta- 


xxi 


xiiii 


A 


bernackles continewit vii. dayis. 


xxii 


iij 


b 


Leuit. 23. John 7. 


xxiii 




c 




xxiiii 


xi 


d 




XXV 


xix 


e 




xxvi 




f 




xxvii 


viii 


g 


Simon and Jude. 


xxviii 




A 




xxix 


xvi 


b 


at vij. and ane half, 


XXX 


v 


c 


and iiij. and ane half. 


xxxi 



Nouember xxx. dayis. 



d Hallow day ane fair in Edin- 
xiii e burgh viij. dayis, and in Falk- 
ij f land ane day. 



The io. day Martine Luther 
was borne in Iflebia, the zeir of 
Chrift. 1483. 



S. Martine in Dunbar, in Cow- 
per of Fyfe, and in Hammiltoun 
ane Fair. 

Decembris. 
The 15. day Jeroboam efter 
the defectioun of the ten Try- 
bes from Roboam, ereftit ij. 
Goldin Calues in Dan, and Be- 
thell, and caufit the pepill to 
ga worfchip thame, that thay 
fuld not go vp to Jerufalem. 
I. Kings 12. * 



S. Katherene in Dunfermling 
ane Fair. 



S. Andro in S. Johnftoun, in 
Peblis, in Sanftandrois, and in 
Chirnefyde, in the Mers ane Fair. 



X 


A 




b 


xviii 


c 


vij 


d 




e 


XV 


f 


iiij 


g 
A 


xij 


b 


j 


c 




d 


ix 


e 




f 


xvij 


g 
A 
b 


xiiij 
iij 


c 
d 




e 


xi 


f 


xix 


g 

A 


xviii 


b 




c 


xvi 


d 


V 


e 



1 

ii 

iii 

iiii 

v 

vi 

vii 

viii 

ix 

x 

xi 

xii 

xiii 

xiiii 

xv 

xvi 

xvii 

xviii 

xix 

xx 

xxi 

xxii 

xxiii 

xxiiii 

xxv 

xxvi 

xxvii 

xxviii 

xxix 

xxx 



December xxxi. day is. 



xiii 


f 






• i 


ii 


g 
A 






ii 
iii 


X 


b 
c 






iiii 

V 


xiiii 


d 


S. 


Nicolas in Abirdene a fair. 


vi 


vii 


e 






vii 


XV 


f 
g 


Lady day in the weft wemis 
ane fair. 


viii 
ix 


iiii 


A 






X 




b 




Sone in Capricorne. 


xi 


xii 


c 






xii 


J 


d 




Luce, fchorteft day. 


xiii 


ix 


e 
f 

g 


January, 
at viii. and ane quarter, and 
ane quarter before iiij. 


xiiii 

XV 

xvi 


xvii 


A 






xvii 


vi 


b 
c 






xviii 
xix 


xiiii 


d 






XX 


iii 


e 
f 




Thomas Apoftle. 


xxi 
xxii 


xi 


g 
A 






xxiii 
xxiiii 


viii 


b 
c 




Zule day. 
S. Steuin. 


XXV 

xxvi 


xvi 


d 
e 




S. Johne Euangell. 
Innocentis day. 


xxvii 
xxviii 


V 


f 
g 






xxix 

XXX 


xiiii 


A 






xxxi 



The Lamentatioun 
of a Sinner. 

O LORD in thee is all my truft, 
giue eare vnto my wofull cry : 
Refufe me not that am unjuft, 

bot bowing doun thy heavenly eye, 
Behald how I do ftill lament 

my finnes quhairin I do offend; 
O Lord, for thame fall I be fchent ? 
fen thee to pleafe I do intend. 

No, no, not fo thy will is bent, 

to deale with finners in thyne ire ; 
Bot quhen in hart thay fall repent, 

thow grantft with fpeid thair jufl defyre : 
To the thairfoir ftill fall I cry 

to wafh away my fmful cryme : 
Thy blude (O Lord) is not zit dry 

bot that thow may help me in tyme. 

For quhy ? whill I on eirth remaine 

oppreft, allace, with wo and greif ! 
My febill hart plunged in paine, 

doth figh and few for thy releif. 
Sweit Chrift, will thow not then appeir, 

to comfort thame that comfort laik ? 
Will thow not bow thyne eir to heir ? 

Lord Jefus, cum and be not flake ! 

For then fall thyne reffave thair reft ; 
thair joy, thair blys, thair perfite peice, 

And 



The Lament atloun. 

And fe thy face of treafure beft, 
O Lord, that dois our joyes incres. 

Then fall thow give thofe Nobill crownes, 
quhilk thine awin blud hes deirly bocht. 

Then fall thofe Pfalmes and hie Renownes 
be gevin in grace moft richely wrocht. 

Then fall thy Saintes redemed deir, 

from baill to blys remoued be • 
And fweiteft Chrift, thy fweit voyce heir 

cum vnto me Babes, cum to me. 
Cum Reigne in joye Eternalie, 

cum reigne in blys that hes na end, 
Cum thairfoir Lord, cum Chrift we pray, 

our preffed greif with fpeid amend. 

Hafte thee (O Lord) hafte thee I fay, 

to powre on me the giftes of grace ; 
That quhen this lyfe muft flit away, 

in heuin with the I may haue place. 
Quhair thow doft reigne Eternally, 

with God, quhilk once did doun thee fend, 
Quhair Angels fings continually, 

to thee be praife, warld without end. 



So be it. 



^M C7*^* *><*& tJfc'vj ^H$ «^ 

TITHE PROLOGVE. 

PAVLE writand to the ColofT. in his 
thrid Chap, fayis, " Let the word 
of God dwel in zow plenteouflie in all 
wifdome ; teiching and exhorting zour 
awin felfis with Pialmes, & Hymnis, and 
Spirituall fangis,quhilkis haue lufe to God, 
& fauouris his word." We haue heir ane 
plane Text, that the word of God in- 
creffis plenteouflie in vs, be finging of the 
Pfalmes, and Spiritual fangis, and that fpe- 
ciallie amang zoung perfonis, and fie as ar 
not exercifit in the Scriptures : for thay wil 
foner confaue the trew word, nor quhen 
thay heir it fung in Latine, the quhilks 
thay wait not what it is. Bot quhen thay 
heir it fung in thair vulgar toung, or fingis 
it thame felfis, with fweit melodie, then fal 
thay lufe thair Lord God, with hart and 
minde,and caufethem to put awaybaudrie 
& vnclene fangis. Pray God. Amen. 
A.j 



2 The Text of the Cateehifme. 

THE text of the Cateehifme, or Inftruftioun 
of Chriftiane men, quhilk is neceffarie till 
euerie man that wald be fauit, to knaw and exer- 
cife thame felfis day lie thairin, contening the Ten 
Commandementis of God, the Twelve Articklis of 
our Faith, the Lordis Prayer, of our Baptifme, 
and of the Lordis Supper. 

And jirjl, the Ten Commandementis of God, 

as thay ar ivrittin in Exodus the 

tnventie Chapter. 

I Am the Lord thy God quhilk haue brocht the 
out of the land of Egypt, and furth of the hous 
of bondage. Thow fail haue nane vther godis 
befoir my face. 

Thow fall not mak to thy felf ony grauin Image, 
nor the fimilitude of ony thing that is in heuin 
aboue, nor in the eirth beneth, nor in the watter 
vnder the eirth : thow fall not bow downe to them 
nor worfchip them. For I the Lord thy God am 
a jelous God, and vifitis the finnes of the Fatheris 
vpon the Children vnto the thrid and fourt gene- 
ratioun of them that hait me; and fchew mercie 
vnto thouiandis of them that lufe me, and keipis 
my commandementis. 

Thow fall not tak the Name of the Lord thy 
God in vane : [For the Lord wil not hald him 
giltles that taketh his name in vaine. Edit. 162 1.] 

Remember that thow keip haly the Sabboth day. 



The Ten Commandementis. 3 

Honour thy Father and thy Mother. 

Thow fall do na Murther. 

Thow fall not commit Adulterie. 

Thow fall not Steill. 

Thow fall not beir fals witnes aganis thy Nicht- 
bour. 

Thow fall not couet thy Nichtbouris hous : thow 
fall not couet thy Nichtbouris wyfe, nor his 
feruand, nor his mayd, nor his oxe, nor his 
affe, nor ony thing that is thy Nichtbouris. 

^f The threitning of God, maid to them that brekis 

his Commandementis , and His promeis maid 

to them that keipis them. Deut. xvij. 

Curfit ar thay that continewis not in all the 
wordis of this Law to do them ; and all the pepil 
fall fay Amen. Exod. xx. Chap. 

% The tivelf ArticUis of our Faith, as thay war 

writtin be the Apoftillis to the Thre 

Perfones in Trinitie. 

I T Beleue in God the Father Almichtie, maker 

JL of heuin and eird. 
2 . And in Jefus Chrift his only Sone our Lord. 

3 Quhilk was confauit be the Haly Gaift, borne 
of the Virgine Mary. 

4 Sufferit vnder Ponce Pylate, was crucifyit, 

deid, and buryit, and difcendit into hell. 

5 The thrid day he rais againe from the deid. 

6 He afcendit into heuin, and fittis at the richt 

A.ij 



4 The Artlcklis of the Faith. 

hand of God the Father Almichtie. 

7 And efter fall cum to judge the quicke and the 

deid. 

8 T Beleue in the Haly Gaift. 

9 J_ The haly Kirk vniuerfall, the communioun 

of Saintes. 

10 The Remiffioun of Sinnis. 

1 1 The Refurrefrioun of the body. 

12 And life Euerlafting. So be it. 

% The Lordis Prayer, as it is nvrittin in the 6. Chap. 

of Matheiv, quhilk Chrifl leirnit vs to pray, 

contening fex petitiounis, and all thingis 

necejfarie for vs. &c. 

I/^VR Father that art in heuin, hallowit be 

V_y thy Name. 

2 Thy Kingdome cum. 

3 Thy will be done in eirth, as it is in heuin. 

4 Giue vs this day our day lie breid. 

5 Forgiue vs our trefpaffis, as we forgiue them 
that trefpas aganis vs. 

6 And leid vs not into temptatioun. Bot deliuer 
vs from euill. For thine is the Kingdome, the 
power and the glorie, for euer. Amen. 

f Of our Baptifme. 

GO zour way, and teiche all Natiounis, and 
Baptife them in the name of the Father & 
of the Sone, and of the Haly Gaift. Math, 
xvj. Chap. Go zour way into all the warld, and 
preiche the Euangell till all creatures : and quha 



Of our Baptifme. 5 

that beleuis and is Baptifit, fall be faif ; bot quha 

beleuis not, fal be condempnit. ad Titum. Cap. 3. 

Not for the workis of righteoufnes that we haif 

wrocht, bot efter his greit mercie, God hes fauit 

vs be the fontane of the new birth, and renewing 

of the Haly Gaift ; quhilk he fched on vs abound- 

antly throw Jefus Chrift our Sauiour, that we 

being maid richteous be his grace, fuld be airis of 

Eternal Life, according to hope, this is trew, 

Rom. vj. Thairfoir we are buryit with 

Chrift be Baptifme into deid : like as 

Chrift was raifit fra deid be the glo- 

rie of his Father, euin fa we al- 

fo fuld walk in a new life. 

% The Lordis Supper, as it is writ tin in the jirfl 
Epiflil to the Cor. xj. Chap. 

THAT quhilk I haue deliuerit vnto zow, I 
reffauit of the Lord : for the Lord Jefus, the 
fame nicht in the quhilk he was betray it, tuke the 
breid, brak it, gaue thankis, and faid, Tak ze, eit 
ze, this is my body quhilk is brokin for zow, do 
ze this in remembrance of me. Efter the fame 
maner alfo, he tuke the coupe, quhen the Supper 
was done, and faid, This coupe is the new Testa- 
ment in my blude, do this als oft as ze drink it in 
the remembrance of me, for als oft as ze fall eit of 
this breid, and drink of this coupe, ze fall declair 
the Lordis deith vntill his cumming. Quhair- 
foir, quhafaeuer fall eit of this breid, and drinke 
of this coupe of the Lord vnworthely, falbe gyltie 
of the body and blude of the Lord. Bot let euerie 
A. iij 



6 Moy/es vpon the Mont Sinay. 

man examine him felf, & let him eit of this breid, 

and drink of this coupe. For he that eitis and 

drinkis vnworthely, eitis and drinkis his 

awin dampnatioun, becaus he makis 

na difference of the Lordis 

body and blude. 

% The power of binding and lowfing grantit to the 

trew preicheris of Goddis word. 

Mat hew xvj. Chapter. 

THE keyis of heuin will I giue vnto the, quhat 
faeuer thow fal bind vpon the eird, falbe bound 
alfo in heuin : and quhatfaeuer thow fall loufe v- 
pon the eird, falbe lowfit alfo in heuin. Quhais 
finnis ze forgiue, ar forgeuin vnto them, & quhais 
finnis ze retene, ar retenit vnto them. 



% Heir followis the Catechifme put in Meter y to 

be fung with the tune, and firfl the Ten 

Commande?nentis . 

MOYSES vpon the Mont Sinay, 
with the greit God fpak face for face, 
Faftand and prayand but delay, 
The tyme of fourtie dayis fpace. 
O God be mercy full to vs. 

And God gaue him thir ten Commandis, 
To teiche to mankinde euerie one, 



Moyfes vpon the Mont Sinay. J 

And wrait them with his awin handis 
Twyfe on twa Tabillis maid of ftone. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

j. I am thy God allanerlie, 
Seme me in feir and faith thairfoir, 
Worfchip na kinde of Imager ie, 
And giue na creature my gloir. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

ij. Tak not the Name of God in vaine, 
Bot let zour talk be nay and ze, 
Except ane Judge do zow conftraine 
To teftifie the veritie. 

O God be mercyfull to vs. 

iij. Wirk na euill wark on Haly day, 
Fie from all fmfull luff and lleuth, 
Walk and be fober, fail: and pray, 
Heir him that preiche the word of treuth. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

iiij. Honour thy Elders, and them fupplie, 
Gif that thair neid of thee requyre, 
Obey all Judges in their degre, 
Ordand ouir the to haue impyre. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

v. Thow fall not flay in na kin wyfe, 
In counfell, thocht, nor outward deid. 
Be thow ane Judge, or on ane Syfe, 
In judgement or dourly proceid. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 
A. iiij 



8 Moyfes vpon the Mont Sin ay . 

vj. Commit na kinde of licherie, 
Bot leif ane chaift and fober lyfe : 
Want thow the gift of Chaiftitie 
Burne not in luft, bot wed ane wyfe. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

vij. Commit na thift, na man thow reif, 
Leif on thy wage, thy rent or wark : 
Hald na manis geir, let nane the craif, 
Beg not and thow be haill and ftark. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

viij. Beir na witnes with fals report, 
In contrair just and richteous men : 
Defame na man in ony fort, 
Suppois his fault or vice thow ken. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

ix. Thy Nichtbouris wyfe, hous, heritage, 
Thow couet not, to the, or wis 
His hors, his oxe, his mayd, nor page, 
Nor ony gudis that is his. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

x. Our poy found nature (allace thairfoir) 
Can neuer mair this Law fulfill, 
Bot greuand God ay moir and moir, 
And can not wirk his godly will. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

Then quhy to vs gaue God this Law ; 
The quhilk be na way we can keip ? 
That we be it our Sin fuld knaw, 



We trow in God allanerlie. 

Repent and mend, and for it weip. 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

Trew Faith in Chrift wirkand be lufe, 
Sail faue vs from the fyre of hell : 
Thocht Goddis Angell wald vs reprufe, 
As fals and curft ze him expell: 
O God be mercyfull to vs. 

f Of our Beleif. 

WE trow in God allanerlie, 
Full of all micht and Maieftie, 
Maker of heuin and eird fa braid, 
Quhilk hes him felf our Father maid : 
And we his Sonnis ar in deid, 
He will vs keip in all our neid, 
Baith faull and body to defend, 
That na mifchance fall vs offend ; 
He takis cure baith day and nicht, 
To faue vs throw his godly micht 
Fra Sathanis fubteltie and flicht. 

We trow in Jefus Chrift his Sone, 
God lyke in gloir, our Lord alone : 
Quhilk, for his mercy and his grace, 
Wald man be borne to mak our peace, 
Of Mary mother Virgin chaift 
Confauit be the Haly Gaift. 
And for our faik on croce did die, 
Fra fin and hell to mak vs fre : 
And rais from deith, throw his Godheid, 
Our Mediatour and our remeid, 



io The Lordis Prayer. 

Sail cum to Judge baith quick and deid. 

We trow in God the Haly Spreit, 
In all diftres our comfort fweit. 
We trow the Kirk Catholick be, 
And faithfull Chriftin companie, 
Throw all the warld with ane accord. 
Remiffioun of our Sin we trow ; 
And this fame flefche that leuis now 
Sail ftand vp at the latter day, 
And bruik Eternall lyfe for ay. 

FINIS. 

OVR Father God Omnipotent, 
Quhen Chrift thy Sone was heir prefent, 
He bad vs euer pray to the ; 
(Becaus we knew not for to pray) 
He leirnit vs quhat we fuld fay, 
Syne hecht to heir vs mercyfullie. 

Sen the to call, is thy command, 
Thyne awin wordis then vnderftand, 

Quhilk thow hes promeift for till heir : 
Behald not my vnrichteoufnes, 
Bot luke till Chriftis richteoufhes 

And with thy faith my Spreit vp fteir. 

Lord, thow will haue allanerlie, 
Worfchip in Spreit and veritie, 

And to nane vther giue thy gloir : 
Thy Name then let vs lufe and dreid, 
And call on it in all our neid, 

And thank and loue the euermoir. 



The Lordls Prayer. 1 1 

Deftroy the Deuill, his Realme and Reigne 
CVuhilk of this warld is Prince and King, 

And let thy Gofpell be our gyde : 
Conforme our lyfe efter thy word, 
That we may reigne for euer (O Lord) 

In thy Kinrik with the to byde. 

God grant that we may wirk thy will, 
In eird thy plefure to fulfill, 

Siclyke as in the Heuin impyre : 
And quhat that euer we tak on hand, 
May be conforme to thy command, 

And na thing efter our defyre. 

Giue vs this day our day lie breid, 
And all thing that thow hes maid, 

For mennis fuftentatioun ; 
And all thing quhairof we haue neid, 
Our faull and body for to feid, 

But fleuth or foliftatioun. 

Forgiue our fmnis, and our trefpas, 
For Chriftis faik quhilk geuin was, 

To deid for our Redemptioun ; 
As we forgiue all Creature, 
Offendand vs, baith riche and pure, 

Hartfully without exemptioun. 

Defend vs from temptatioun, 
The feind and his vexacioun, 

The warld fa fals, the fragill flefche-, 
Saif vs from fchame, and from difpair, 

From vnbeleue and Lollaris lair, 



1 2 Of our Baptifme. 

And Deuillis doctrine mair or les. 

Deliuer vs from euillis all, 
Baith fpirituall and corporall, 

And grant vs grace quhen we fall die, 
And fra this prefent lyfe we wend, 
That we may mak ane blyilit end, 

Syne reigne with the eternallie. 

Power nor gloir, impyre nor tryne, 
Is nane in heuin nor eirth bot thyne, 

And euer mair fall fa remaine : 
Thairfoir thow may and wil releue 
All them that can in Chrift beleue, 

From Deid, the Deuill, and Hellis paine. 

FINIS. 

If The effect of the Sacrament of Baptifme, and firfl 

inflitution thairof; declaring alfwa quhat fin- 

gular comfort we obtene be the famin. 

CHRIST baptift was be Johne in Jordan flude, 
For to fulfil for vs all richteoufnes, 
And our Baptifme dotit with fanftitude, 
And greit vertew, to wefche our fmfulnes, 
To drowne the deid, and hell for to oppres, 
Quhen Goddis word with water joynit be, 
Throw Faith to gif vs life Eternallie. 

For our waiknes God of his mercy fweit, 
To ftrenth our Faith ordand this Sacrament, 

In Name of Father, Sone and Haly Spreit, 

To wefche our body, and in our minde to prent 



Of our Baptifme. 13 

That worde and water outward reprefent, 
Throw wirking of the Spirit into our hart, 
That Chriftis blude wefchis away the fin inwart. 

Our Baptifme is ane takin, and ane figne, 
That auld Adame fuld drownit be and die, 

And grauit in the deid of Chrift our King, 
To rife with him to life Eternallie : 
That is, we fuld our fin ay mortifie, 

Refiftand vice, leif haly, juft and trew, 

And throw the Spirit daylie our life renew. 

Be figure and be word, Chrift did vs teiche, 
The Fatheris voyce was hard fay and full cleir, 

Jefus, quhome I haue fend my word to preiche, 
He is my weilbelouit Sone fa deir, 
In word, in wark, allone ze fall him heir : 

In him is all my plefure and delyte, 

To him I zow commit baith fmall and greit. 

The Haly Gaift come downe to teftifie, 
His doctrine and his Baptifme to declair, 

In forme of Dow fat on him foberlie : 
In Baptifme to dout not nor difpair, 
Baith Father, Sone, and Haly Gaift ar thair 

To be our gyde, the Trinitie him fell, 

Hes geuin in eird with vs to dwell. 

Chrift bad his Apoftillis preiche to all creature 
That thay with fin and hell war all forlorne ; 

Ouha will beleue, and traift my wordis fare 
And bapteift is, and new againe is borne, 
And Sathan and his warkis hes forfworne, 



14 Of our Baptifme. 

Thay fall be faif, and neuer mair fall die, 
Bot ring in gloir perpetuall with me. 

Quha will not this greit grace beleif, to hell 
Salbe condempnit, with eternall deid 

Qruhair Purgatorie and Pardounis will not fell, 
And gude intent, thair Pylate plicht and leid : 
Dum ceremonies, the quhilk themfelf hes maid 

And vowis vaine, quhilk thay did neuer keip, 

Sail gar thame gnafhe thair teith, & eyis weip. 

Our eine feis outward bot the watter cauld, 
Bot our pure faith the power fpirituall 

Of Chriftis blude, in wart it dois behauld, 
Quhilk is ane leuand well celeftiall 
Zit for to purge the penitent with all 

Our natiue fin, in Adame to expell, 

And all trefpas committit be our fell. 

Our Baptifme is not done all on ane day, 
Bot all our lyfe it leftis identlie : 

Remiffioun of our fin, induris for ay : 
For thocht we fall, throw grit fragylitie, 
The cunnand anis contract faithfullie 

Be our grit God, at Font, fall euer remaine, 

Als oft as we repent, and fin refraine, 

We can not giue to God louing conding 
For fa greit grace, and mercy infinite, 

Quhilk inftitute this Sacrament and Signe, 
Quhais greit vertew in veirs I can not dyte ; 
Bot mony cunning Clerk of it dois wryte 

Full Chriftianely, als the Catechifme buke 



The Lordis Supper. 15 

Declaris at length, quha lift to luke. 

% The Supper of the Lord, and richt vfe of it, 
to be fun g. 

OVR Sauiour Chrift, King of grace, 
With God the Father maid our peace ; 
And with his bludie woundis fell, 
Hes vs redemit from the Hell. 

And he, that we fuld not forzet, 
Gaue vs his body for to eit 
In forme of breid, and gaue vs fyne 
His blude to drink in forme of wyne. 

Quha will reflaue this Sacrament, 
Suld haue trew faith, and fin repent ; 
Quha vfis it vnworthelie, 
RefTauis deid eternallie. 

We fuld to God giue praife and gloir, 
That fched his blude vs to reftoir ; 
Eit this is his remembrance, 
In figne of thy delyuerance. 

Thow fuld not dout, bot fail beleue, 
That Chriftis body fall releue 
All them that ar in heuines 
Repentand fair thair fmfulnes. 

Sic grace and mercy nane can craif 
Bot thay that troublit hartis haif : 
Feill thow then fin, abftene thy fell, 



1 6 The Lordis Supper. 

Or thy rewaird fall be in hell. 

Chrift fayis, Sinners, cum vnto me, 
Quhilk myfter hes of my mercie : 
Neidis thow nocht my medicine, 
I lois my paine and trauel tyne. 

Giue thow thy felf thy Saull culd win, 
In vaine I deit for thy fin : 
My Supper is nocht graithit for the, 
Gif thow can mak thy felf fupplie. 

Will thow thy fmfull life confes, 
And with this wark thy faith expres, 
Sa ar ze worthie, fmall and greit, 
And it fall ftrenth zour faith perfite. 

And thow fall thankfull be thairfoir, 
And loue thy God for euirmoir-, 
Thy Nichtbour lufe, and als fupplie 
His neid, as Chrift hes done for thee. 

^f Gertaine Graces to be fung, or fatd, befoir 
or efter melt, 

ALL meit and drink was creat be the Lord, 
Reffauit for to be with thankfulnes, 
Til all faithful knawers of the trew word, 
To fatisfie thair neid with fobernes. 
All fude is gude, the quhilk God creat hes, 
And not to be refufit ony day, 
Only to God geuing the louing ay, 
Be prayer, and be Goddis word all meit 



The Graces. 17 

Unto the clene, all thingis is clene to eit ; 
Thairfoir, we pray his godly Maieftie 
To blys our meit, and all our companie, 
And faif vs fra exces and drunkinnes ; 
Efter our meit to thank his gentilnes. 

CHRIST leirnit vs on God how we fuld call, 
And bad vs pray, fyne hecht to heir vs all. 
Our Father God quhilk is in heuin fa hie, 
Thy glorious Name with vs mot hallowit.be. 
Let cum to vs thy kingdome and thy gloir. 
Thy will mot be fulfillit euermoir 
In eird, as it is in heuin, but variance. 
Giue vs this day our daylie fuftenance. 
Forgiue our dettis, for Chriftis paine and fmart, 
As we forgiue our detteris with our hart. 
And leid vs not into temptatioun, 
Bot, for Chrift Jefus bitter paffioun, 
Delyuer vs from euillis fpirituall 
And corporall, now and perpetuall. 
Saif vs, gude Lord, for thy promeis deuyne: 
For Kingdome, power, gloir and all is thyne. 

WE thank our God baith kynde and liberall, 
His grace and mercy dois euer indure : 
He geuis fuftentatioun to vs all, 

To man and beift, and euerie creature ; 
And he allone, dois feid baith riche and pure. 
Thairfoir to God be gloir allanerlie, 
Throw Jefus Chrift we thank him hartfullie. 

ALL Creature on the Lord dependis, 
Thair fuftenance for to reflaue of the ; 
B.j 



1 8 The Graces. 

Thair meit & drink in tyme to them thow fendis, 
Thow oppinnis furth thy hand full gracioufly 
And fatiffyis all flefche aboundantly : 
Blys vs gude Lord into thir giftis gude, 
Quhilk thow hes geuin to be our daylie fude. 

TO our gude God, of warldis Lord and King, 
Full of mercy, only trew and wyfe, 
Be louing, honour, gloir, without ending, 
Kingdome, impyre, hieft renoun and pryfe : 
With mynde and mouth, giue we ane thoufand 
All gloir to him, quhilk alone worthie is, [fyfe 
Afldng for Chrift to bring vs to his blis. 

WE thank the God, of thy gudnes, 
Throw Jefus Chrift our gracious Lord, 
For thy greit mercy and gentilnes, 

Quhilk feidis vs with thy fweit word : 
Sen all that euer tuke lyfe of the, 
Thow fatiffyis aboundantlie, 

We praife the all with ane accord. 

As thow hes fed this finfull flefche, 
Quhilk fone fall die, and turne in afle : 

Siclyke the fillie faull refrefche, 
The quhilk immortal! creat was. 

God, for thy grace and mercy greit, 

Grant vs ane fteidfaft faith perfite, 
And in thy gloir with the to pas. 

To God on heich be louing maift, 

Quhilk lowfis fin allanerlie, 
Till all that will repent, and traift 

On 



Sore I complaine. 19 

On Jefus Chrift his Sone onlie : 
Thow makis them thy sone and air, 
Throw him thow will them faif from cair, 
To quhome be gloir eternallie. 

% Certaine Spiritual/ Sangis, togidder with ane Con- 
feffwun of Sin, and ane Prayer, 

SORE I complaine of Sin, 
And with King Dauid weip : 
I feill my hart within 

The wraith of God full deip. 
I wyte my greit trefpas 
Is caus of all my wo, 
Quhairwith God greuit was 
Full fore, and oft alfo. 

O God ! I me confes 

Ane fmfull creature, 
Full of all wretchitnes 

Fragill, vaine, vyle and pure. 
Thair is na gude in me 

Bot pryde, luft, and defyre, 
And warldis vanitie, 

The way to hellis fyre. 

Except God do me faue 

From hell and endles paine, 
My fin will me difTaue, 

Quhilk I can not refraine. 
My only hope and traift, 

Help my fragillitie 
My finnes to deteft, 
B.ij 



20 Sore I complaine. 

Refiftand conftantlie. 

caft me not away 
For my grit finne, O Lord, 

1 grant my vices all 

Blafphemit hes thy word. 
God, for thy grit mercie, 

And Chriftis woundis wyde, 
Ane fteidfaft faith grant me 

Allone to be my gyde. 

Chrift Goddis Sone allone, 

Victour of deid and hell, 
Thow tuke my nature one 

My finnes to expell, 
And gaif thyfelf to plaige, 

Me catiue to conuoy, 
To my richt heritage, 

From paine to heuinlie ioy. 

Thy feruand Lord defend, 

Quhome thow hes bocht fa deir ; 
Trew preichours to me fend 

Thy word to fchaw me cleir : 
Lat me my lyfe amend, 

And thairin perfeueir, 
Grant me ane blyilit end 

Quhen I fall part from heir. 

O Lord God, Haly Spreit, 

Full of benignitie, 
Trew Chrifts promeis fweit, 

Teiche me the veritie. 

Expell 



We wretcbit fmneris. 21 

Expell my ignorance, 

My finnis mortifie, 
Grant me perfeuerance 

Unto the end trewlie. 

FINIS. 

% Ane Sang of our corrupt nature, and the only 
remeid thairof, 

WE wretchit finners pure, 
Our fin hes vs forlorne, 
Thairin all creature confauit is and borne : 
Sin hes wrocht vs fie paine, 
That we, without remeid, 

Condempnit ar and flane to hell, the deuil, & deid. 
Lord haue mercy on vs. Chrift haue mercy, &c. 

Our warkis can nocht be 
As dois the Law requyre, 
Nor zit can fatiffie our Fatheris wraith and ire : 
Na deid can mak vs fre 
From our greit finfulnes, 

Bot Goddis Sone muft die, for our vnrichteoufnes. 
Lord haue mercy on vs. Chrift haue, &c. 

Or had not Chrift bene fend, 
Cled in our vyle nature, 

Fra hell vs to defend, our deidly wound to cure, 
And willingly to die, 
Fra Sin to mak vs clene, 
We had eternallie in hell condampnit bene. 
Lord haue mercy on vs. Chrift haue, &c. 

Man now hes thy peace, 
B. iij 



22 We wretchlt finnerls. 

Sic lufe God fchawis the ; 

He takis the in his grace, his mortal! ennemie. 

Throw Faith in Chrift fa kynde, 

Quhilk frely gaif him fell 

On Croce for to be pynde, to faif vs fra the hell. 

Lord haif mercy. Chrift haif mercy. Lord, &c. 

This we fuld euer beleue, 
And nocht difpair for fin : 

For hell cannot vs greue, the deid nor deuil thairin: 
We ar maid juft and rycht, 

And fred from panis fore, [more 

Throw Chrift that Lord of micht, bliffit for euer- 
Lord haif mercy. Chrift haif mercy. Lord, &c. 

Thairfoir lat vs loue and pryfe, 
God the Father feruentlie. 

We thank ane thoufand fyfe, his Sones Maieftie : 
We pray the Haly Gaift 

Our fin to mortifie, [fullie. 

And not difpair, bot traift Goddis word moft faith- 
Lord haif mercy. Chrift haif mercy, &c. 

^f Ane Sang of the Flefche and the Spreit. 

ALL Chriftin men tak tent and leir, 
How faull and body is at weir : 
Upon this eird baith kit and air, 
With cruell battell identlie, 
And nane may not ane vther fle. 

If The Flefche. 
The Flefche faid, Sen I haue haill, 
I will in zouth with luftis daill, 
Or age with forrow me affaill : 



The Flefche and the Spreit. 23 

With joy I will my tyme ouirdriue, 
And will not with my luflis ftryue. 
f The Spreit. 

The Spreit faid, Thocht I charge the nocht, 
Dreid God, and haue his Law in thocht : 
Thow hecht quhen thow to Font was brocht, 
Efter his Law luft to refraine 
And not to wirk his word againe. 
IF The Flefche. 

The Flefche faid, I am ftark and wicht, 
To wacht gude wyne, frefche, cauld and bricht,. 
And tak my plefure day and nicht, 
With linging, playing, and to dance 
And fet on fex and feuin the chance. 
IF The Spreit. 

The Spreit faid, Think on the riche man, 
Quhilk all time in his hiftis ran, 
Body and faull he loiffit than, 
And fone was buryit into hell 
As Chriil Jefus hes faid him fell, 
f The Flefche. 

The Flefche faid, Quhat hald I of this ? 
Lafer aneuch, and time thair is 
In age for till amend my mis ; 
And from my vitious lyfe conuert 
Quhen fadnes hes ouirfet my hart. 
% The Spreit. 

The Spreit faid, Power thow hes none 
In zouth, nor zit in eild bygone, 
With twinkling of ane eye anone 
God fall the tak at euin and morne, 
Na certaine tyme fet the beforne. 
B. iiij 



24 The Flefche and the Spreit. 

% The Flefche. 
The Flefche faid, All time air and kit, 
I fe all warldlie wife eftait 
Hald luft vertew in thair confait, 
With thame I will perfew my weird 
Als lang as I leue on this eird. 
IT The Spreit. 
The Spreit faid, Zit fall cum the day 
The faull fall part the body fray ; 
Then quhat fall help thy game or play, 
Quhen thow mon turnit be in as, 
As firft in eird quhen thow maid was. 
f The Flefche. 
The Flefche faid, Thow hes vincuft me, 
I traift eternall gloir to fe : 
Chrift grant that I may cum thairby, 
Now will I to my God returne, 
Repent my fin, richt fore I murne. 
IF The Spreit. 
The Spreit faid, Nane to fchame I driue, 
Ane contrite hart help God aliue, 
The flefche mon die, with paine and ftriue, 
For it was borne to that intent, 
In eird with wormes to be rent. 
% The Flefche. 
The Flefche faid, O Lord God of peace, 
Help me to turne, throw Chriftis grace ; 
O Haly Gaift my faith incres, 
That I may thoill this eirdly noy, 
My hope is in eternall joy. 

IT The Spreit. 
The Spreit faid, Now I haue my micht, 

Thocht 



Cum heir, say is Goddis Sone to me. 25 

Thocht I be ane vnworthie Knicht : 
Thow God the quhilk is only richt, 
Thow faue me from the Deuillis net : 
Thairfoir thow on the Croce was plet. 
f The Dyter. 
Now hes this Ballat heir ane end, 

God grant ilk man his hart fa kend, 

To fin na mair, fyne to Chrift wend : 

Than fall he turne againe to vs, 

And giue vs his eternall blys. 

FINIS. 

% Ane Sang of the Croce, and the f rut e thairof. 

CVM heir, fayis Goddis Sone to me, 
Sinneris, that heuie ladin be, 
I will zour fillie Saull refrefche : 
Cum zoung and auld, baith man and wyfe, 
I will zow giue eternall lyfe, 

Thocht troublit heir fair be zour flefche. 

My zok is fweit, my burding fmall, 
Quha drawis efter me, thay fall 

Efchaip eternall deid and fyre : 
For I fall help them in thair draucht, 
That thay fall cum, as I haue taucht, 

To gloir and joy, and heuin impyre. 

Quhat I haue teichit lait and air, 
Quhat I haue tholit les and mair, 

That preis zow euer to fulfill ; 
And thocht zour flefche be heir oppreft, 
Zit all thing wirk fall for the belt ; 

For fa is richt, and Goddis will. 



26 Cum heir^ say is Goddis Sone to me. 

The warld wald fauit be, and faine, 
And cum to gloir but croce or paine ; 

Quhilk Chriftis flock muft fufFer heir. 
Bot paine, thair is nane vther way 
To cum to gloir, and put away 

Eternall hellis paine, but peir. 

That the faithfull muft the Croce indure, 
Witnes beiris all creature, 

Sub de wit vnto vanitie : 
Quha will not thoill in Chriftis name, 
The Deuill fall wirk him fie ane fchame, 

With peirles paine perpetuallie. 

To day ane man is frefche and fair, 
The morne he lyis feik and fair, 

Syne dulefully domeit to deid : 
Euin lyke as in the feild ane flour, 
The day is fweit, the morne is four : 

Sa all this wretchit warld fall faid. 

The godles dreidis fair to die, 
Bot quhen he can na further flee, 

And fain his fmfull lyfe wald mend : 
Thay grip fa faft his geir to get, 
The fillie faull is quyte forzet, 

Quhill haiftely gais out his aind. 

Quhen he perfauis na remeid, 
Then greuoufly he gais to deid, 

And gruncheand geuis up the gaift : 
Sair I fufpeft God do accufe 
His Sectouris, and him felf refufe, 

That 



Cum heir, say is Goddls Sone. 2 J 

That fa vnfaithfully deceift. 

The riche man, helpis not his glide, 
The nobill not his royall blude ; 

For thay fall baith thair quarrell tyne : 
Thocht ane had all this warld fa wyde, 
Zit he fall die with dule and pyne, 

With golde and precious ftanis of pryde. 

Knawledge concernis not the clerk, 
Nor hypocrite his haly wark ; 

Bot thay but dout with deid mon dwell. 
Quha will not haill to Chrift him giue, 
Quhill in this prefent lyfe he Hue, 

For euer mair fall die in hell. 

Mark weill thairfoir, my Sonnis fweit, 
How Chriftis croce is for zow meit: 

O moue zow not in mynde thairfoir, 
Bot at his word ftand fteidfaftlie, 
And with him fuffer pacientlie, 

Gif ze wald enter in his gloir. 

Do gude for euill, and leid zour lyfe, 
Without reprufe, but pryde or ftryfe, 

And thoill the warldis wraith to rage. 
O enter be that narrow rod ; 
Giue gloir and vengeance vnto God, 

And he thair cruell ire fall fwage. 

Quhen that zour flefche hes all the will, 
And may zour luftis all fulfill, 
Ze ar but dout the Feindis pray : 



28 Cum heir^ say is Goddis Sone &c. 

God fendis zow the croce thairfoir, 
To mortifie zour flefche fo foir, 
To faif zour fillie faull for ay. 

And quhen this fchort paine to zow greif, 
Than think on hell the lang mifcheif, 

Quhair mony ane for ay fall murne ; 
And faull and body fall remaine, 
For euermoir with cruell paine, 

Endles for ay, without returne. 

Bot he fall, efter warldly pyne, 
Reioyce with Chrift, withouttin fyne, 

Quhair na myndis memoriall 
Can think, nor toung can tell the tryne, 
Nor haue the gloir quhilk fall propyne 

That michtie Lord vnto vs all. 

For quhat eternall God of peace 

Hes promeift, throw his Spreit of grace, 

And fyne fworne be his haly Name, 
That he fall hald baith trew and fune. 
God grant that we may fe his Throne, 

Throw faith in Jefus Chrift. Amen. 

% Ane Confolatioun in aduerfitie of the Scripture. 

BLISSIT is he quhome God dois correft ; 
Thairfoir his fcurge fe thow not negleft : 
For he it is quhilk geuis wan and wound, 
And fuddanly he will mak haill and found. 
He will the ftryke with his maifl: fatherly wand, 
Syne the releue with his maift mercyfull hand. 

God 



Blyjfit is he. 29 

God will the flay, and giue the lyfe anone, 

And the returne, thocht thow to graue wer gone. 

And will the fone bring into pouertie, 

Syne giue the greit riches aboundantlie. 

He will the fet into a law degre, 

Syne the exalt, that euerie man may fe. 

Quhome God reflauis to his fone and air, 

Him will he fcurge with plagues faid and fair ; 

Thairfoir vnder the croce thow perfeuir : 

Then as a Father fall God to the appeir. 

Quha is ane fone, and will not pacientlie 

His father thoill, with all humiUtie? 

He fchawis him as he wer baftard borne, 

And heritage fra him wer all forlorne. 

And fen that we our flefchely father dreid, 

For eirdly thing our body for to feid, 

How mekill mair our Father fpirituall 

Suld we obey to lyfe perpetuall. 

All croce appeiris prefently diftres, 

Voyde of all joy, bot full of painefulnes ; 

Bot efterwart it fall giue peace and reft, 

Thocht for a tyme with paine we be oppreft, 

The paine that is now prefent, fchort and licht, 

And leftis bot a moment in our ficht, 

Aboue meafure fall wirk eternall gloir 

In till our faull, behalding not thairfoir 

The prefent paine, quhilk is befoir our ene, 

Bot luke on that quhilk now may not be fene. 

All joy efteme, my brether, ane and all, 

Quhen into diueris troublis ze do fall, 

And knawis that of zour faith it is a preif, 

To wirk in zow pacience for zour releif ; 






30 Sinner is , vnto my fang. 

As of the croce ze ar companzeoun, 
Sa fall ze be of confolatioun. 
Faithfull is God, and on zow hes pitie, 
And will not thoill zow temptit for to be 
Aboue zour ftrenth, bot will quhen ze leift wene, 
Giue zow fie grace, that ze fall weill fuftene. 
Juft mennis lyfe is in the Lordis hand, 
Torment of deid may not them hald in band. 
Thocht befoir men thay thoill aduerfitie, 
Thair hope is full of immortalitie. 
God knawis innocentis temptatioun, 
To faif them fra thair greit vexatioun ; 
And fall reffaue againe the latter day, 
The wickit for to burne in hell for ay. 

FINIS. 

% The Forlorne Sone, as it is writtin in the 
xv. Chapter cf Luk. 

SINNERS, vnto my fang aduert, 
Quhilk Chriil: into his Vangell kend, 
And from zour finfull lyfe conuert, 

Quhairwith ze do zour God offend. 
For Chrift in his fweit Parabill, 
To faif vs is full plyabill, 

Gif we repent, and to him wend. 

Ane certaine man of riche fubftance, 

Had Sonnes twa to him full deir, 
And fone with fchort delyuerance, 

The zoungeft fpak on this maneir : 
Father, giue me my part of geir, 
Quhilk me belangis les and mair, 

I will na mair be thirlit heir. 

The 



Sinner is , vnto my fang. 31 

The Father did his gude deuyde, 
Betuix them, bot the zoungeft Sone 

Wald na mair with his Father byde, 
Bot tuke his part, and furth is gone : 

In till ane ftrange and far countrie, 

And leuand thair richt ryatouflie 
He waiftit all his geir anone. 

Quhen all was gone, thair rais fra hand 
Ane derth quhilk maid the vittell lkant, 

Baith far and neir throw all the land, 
And he throw neid begouth to want : 

Then to ane Citizenar he zeid, 

Quhilk fend him furth his fwyne to feid, 
For fait of fude he was full fant. 

He wald haue eitin with the fwyne, 

His houngrie ftomak to fulfill: 
Bot thocht he fuld for hounger tyne, 

Zit nane wald giue him leif thairtill : 
Quhen he come till him felf againe, 
This him alone he culd complaine, 

In till his mynde with mourning ftill. 

How mony feruandis for thair wage, 

Hes fude into my fatheris hous, 
And I for hounger die and rage ? 

Bot my father is gracious, 
Thairfoir till him I will me dres : 
And fchaw my fin and my diftres, 

And fay with voyce full pitious, 

O Father, I haue bene to bauld, 



32 Sinneris, vnto my fang. 

Sinnand contrair the heuin and the, 
And not worthie that men me hauld, 

Na mair thy Sone in ony degre : 
As ane of thy feruandis me mak. 
With that he did his jornay tak 

Hame till his Father haiftilie. 

And quhen he come bot zit afar, 
His father had compaffioun, 

And ran him till or he was war, 
And gaue him confolatioun, 

And in his armes he did him fang 

And euer he kiffit him amang, 
With friendly falutatioun. 

The Sone faid, Father of greit micht, 
I knaw that I haue finnit foir 

Contrair the heuin, and [in] thy ficht, 
And I am worthie now no more 

That ony me thy fone fuld call. 

Bot his Father, full liberall, 
Callit his feruandis him befoir : 

And kyndely to them can he fay, 
Ze bring me furth the beft cleithing, 

And cleithe my Sone courtly and gay, 
And on his finger ze put ane ring, 

Ze fet on fchone vpon his feit, 

The quhilk ar trym and wounder meit, 
That he be honeft in all thing. 

And flay that calf quhilk now is maid 
Sa fat, and let vs mak gude cheir, 



SinneriS) vnto my fang. 7>Z 

For this my Sone the quhilk now was deid, 

Againe on lyfe is haill and feir : 
My Sone was loift, and now is found. 
And they within ane lytill ftound 

Began to myrrie be but weir. 

The Eldeft to the feild was gone, 

And quhen that he hame cummand wes, 

And hard the menftraly anone, 

The danfmg and the great blyithnes, 

Ane of his feruandis he did call, 

And faid to him, Quhat menis all 
This glaidnes, and this merynes? 

Then anfwerit he, and faid him till, 

Thy Brother is cum hame againe, 
Thairfoir his father hes gart kill 

His weill fed calf, and is full faine 
That faif refTauit him hes he. 
The Eldeft wraith was and angrie, 

And zeid not in throw greit difdaine : 

And then come furth his Father kynde, 

And prayit him richt feruently: 
Bot he anfwerit, richt proude in mynde, 

O Father myne, how lang haue I 
Thy trew and faithfull feruand bene ; 
And neuer zit brak thy biddene, 

Bot the obeyit faithfully. 

Zit gaue thow nocht of thy riches, 

Sa mekle as ane fmall kyd to me, 
That I micht mak fum mirrynes, 
C.j 



34 Sinner is, vnto my fang. 

And with my lufaris blyith to be. 
Bot now, becaus is cum againe 
Thy Sone quhilk waiftit hes, in vaine, 

Thy gudis into harlatrie ; 

That calf quhilk fofterit was fa fair, 

Thow hes gart kill at his plefour. 
His Father faid, My Sone and air, 

Of all my riches and treafour, 
Quhat ever I haue, all that is thyne, 
And thow art euer with me and myne, 

And all is haill into thy cure. 

Thairfoir to vs it was full meit 

For to reioyce, and blyith to be, 
With all our hart and all our fpreit, 

Thy Brother faif and found to fe : 
For he was loift, and now is win, 
And he was deid from all his kin, 

And now aliue againe is he. 

Our God and Father is full kynde, 

To finneris that ar penitent, 
With all thair hart, and all thair mynde, 

Schawand warkis that thay repent : 
And gif in Chriftis blude thay traift, 
Then fall he neuer them deteft, 

But faif them that thay be not fchent. 

FINIS. 

% Ane Sang of the riche Gluttoun and pure Lazarus, 
as it is writtin in the xv. Chapter of &anB Luk. 

FAITH- 



Faithfull in Cbriji. 33- 

FAITHFVLL in Chrift, vfe zour riches richt, 
Not to zour lust and fenfualitie : 
Bot all tyme help that pure with all zour micht, 
For in the frute fall knawin be the tre ; 
And gude and euil fall baith rewardit be, 
With heuinly gloir, and hell fa terrabill, 
To that effect fpak Chrift this parabill: — 

Ane certaine man was riche, and coiftly cled 
With purpour, fylk, heich and prefumpteous, 

And euerie day delicioufly him fed : 
Thair was alfwa a pure hecht Lazarus, 
Lay feik at the zet of this gluttounis hous ; 

Throw fairis fmart he had ane peirles pyne, 

And wantit fude, quhen he wald faineft dyne. 

To fatiffie his feikly appetyte, 

He wald haue eitin of the crummis fmall, 

Quhilk fell downe fra his buird of greit delyte ; 
But nane to gif him was fa liberall : 
The doggis did thair office naturall, 

And oft thay did this catyue man refrefche, 

Lickand the fylth furth of his laithly flefche. 

It chancit fa this begger did deceis, 

Syne caryit was be angels gracious 
In Abrahams bofome, in heuinly reft and peace. 

And this riche man that was fa ryatous, 

Deceiffit als, syne bury it glorious-, 
In hellis paine he lyftit vp his ene, 
And fyne afar of Abraham hes he fene. 

Quhen Lazarus he faw with him alfo 
Cij 



36 Fait hf nil in Chrijl. 

In his bofome, he faid with drerie fpreit : 
Father Abraham haue mercy on my wo, 
Send Lazarus his finger for to weit, 
And cuiil my toung with cauld water and fweit ; 
For I am torment fair into this flame. 
Then anfwerit him our father Abraham, 

Remember, Sone, that thow refTauit hes 
Into thy lyfe thy plefure in all thing. 

And, contrariwife, Lazarus had diftres, 
Bot now he is in joy and comforting, 
And thow art in wo and tormenting ; 

And als betuix vs thair is fa greit ane fpace, 

That nane may cum till vther be na cace. 

And then he faid, O Father, I the pray, 

Unto my fatheris hous thow wald him fend 

That he my fyue Br ether aduerteis may, 
Leift they into this cairfull place difcend. 
Bot Abraham faid, Let them repent and mend, 

And als thay haue the Prophetis & Moyfes law, 

Let them heir them, gif thai the way wald knaw. 

Bot he faid, Nay, my father Abraham kynde, 
Gif ony to the quick zeid from the deid, 

Trewly thay fuld repent with hart and mynde. 
Bot not the les, Abraham this anfwer maid, 
Gif thay heir not the Law quhilk fuld them leid 

Then fall they nocht in ony wayis beleif, 

Thocht ane fuld ryfe from deid them to releif. 

Unto the pure thairfoir be pietifull, 

Quhill ze ar heir, fchaw them zour cheritie, 

Till 



Help^ God. ^ 

Till freind and fa be all tyme mercyfull, 

As ze forgiue ze fall forgeuin be ; 

Mortifie luft and fenfualitie, 
Conforme zow not to wardly pomp and pryde, 
Dreid God, lufe man, refraine luft at all tyde. 

FINIS. 

^[ The principall pointis of the PajJioun,Jhortlie 
correclit. 

HELP, God, the formar of all thing, 
That to thy gloir may be my dyte ; 
Be baith at end and beginning, 

That I may mak ane fang perfyte 
Of Jefus Chriftis paffioun, 
Sinneris only Saluatioun 

As witneffis thy word in write. 

Thy word for euer fall remaine, 

As in his buke wrytis Ifay, 
Baith heuin and eird fall turne againe, 

Or thy trew word cum to decay. 
Thow can not lyke ane man repent, 
To change thy purpois or intent : 

Bot fteidfaft is thy word for ay. 

Jefus, the Fatheris Word alone, 

Difcendit in ane Virgine pure, 
With meruellis greit and mony one-, 

And be Judas that fals tratour, 
That Lambe for fober fumme was fauld, 
And gaue his lyfe, for caus he wald 

Redeme all finfull creature. 
C. iij 



38 Help, God. 

Quhen eittin was the Pafcall Lamb, 
Chrift tuke the breid his hand within. 

Blyfling it, brak it, gaue the fame 
Till his Apoftillis mair and min, 

Eit that, for my body is this, 

Quhilk for zour faikis geuin is, 
In till remiffioun of zour fin. 

Siclyke he gaue them for to drink 

In wyne his blude, the quhilk was fched, 

Upon his precious deid to think, 
On him remembrance to be maid. 

Quha eitis this blyffit Sacrament, 

Worthely with trew intent 
Sail neuer fe Eternall deid. 

For caus thay knew him till depart. 

Thay ftraif quha fuld be ouereft : 
Bot Jefus faid, with humbill hart, 

Princes ar repute nobileft, 
The quhilk rewlis maift awfullie ; 
Sa amang zow it fall not be, 

Bot quha is maift fall ferue the leift. 

Jefus wufhe his Apoftillis feit, 
Schawand exempill of lawlynes. 

And chargit them with wordis fweit, 
That lufe amang them fuld incres ; 

For thairby it fuld cum to licht, 

That ze ar my Difcipulis richt, 
Giue ze amang zow lufe poffes. 

Efter this prayer paffit he, 



And 



Help^ God. 39 

And met the Jewes quhilk him focht, 
Quhen thay had bound him cruellie, 

Befoir the Judges they him brocht. 
Firft they him him fcurgit, and for fcorne, 
Him crownit with ane crowne of thorne, 

Syne dampnit him to deid for nocht. 

That Prince on Croce thay liftit on hicht, 
For our Redemptioun that thocht fa lang ; 

He faid I thrift, with all my micht, 
To faue mankynde fra panis ftrang : 

He that all warldis was beforne, 

Come downe of Mary to be borne, 
For our trefpas on croce he hang. 

Then he his heid culd inclyne, 

As wrytis Johne, and gaue the gaift. 

And off the croce tane was fyne, 

And laid in graue ; bot fone in haift, 

Leuand, he rais on the thrid day, 

And to his Apoftillis did fay, 
To them appeirit maift and leift. 

And fyne he did his Apoftillis teache, 

Throw all the warld for to pas ; 
And till all creature for to preiche, 

As they of him inftruftit was. 
Quha bapteift is, and will beleue, 
Eternall deid fall not them greue, 

Bot falbe fauit mair and les. 

Sanft Luk wry ting his AfTentioun, 
Thocht prefent ay with vs he be, 
Ciiij 



4-0 Help) God. 

As Scripture makis mentioun, 

That is to fay, with vs is he 
Be his fweit word, fteidfaft but faill, 
Contrair the quhilk can not preuaill 

Sathan nor hellis tyrannie. 

Ane Conforter to vs he did fend, 
Quhilk from the Father did proceid, 

To gyde vs trewly to the end, 

In in wart thocht and outward deid, 

Call on the Lord, our gyde and licht, 

To leid vs in his law full richt, 
And be our help in all our neid. 

Pray for all men in generall, 

Suppois thay wirk vs richt or wrang. 

Pray for zour Prince in fpeciall; 

Thocht thay be juft, or tyrannis ft rang. 

Obey, for fa it aucht to be. 

In prifon, for the veritie, 

Ane faithfull Brother maid this fang. 

FINIS. 

^f Ane Sang of the Euangell, contenand the ejfeB 
of the famin. 

BE blyith, all Chriftin men, and fing, 
Dance and mak mirth with all zour micht, 
Chrift hes vs kyithit greit comforting, 
Ouhairfoir we may reioyce of richt ; 
Ane wark to wounder that is wrocht 
Chrift with his blude full deir vs bocht, 
And for our faik to deid was dicht. 

For 



Beblylth. 41 

For with the Deuill and dulefull deid, 

With hell and fin I was forlorne ; 
The fone of ire, at Goddis feid, 

Confauit fa I was and borne ; 
I grew ay mair and mair thairin, 
And daylie eikit fin to fin, 

Difpair was euer me beforne. 

Quhair I culd not the Law fulfill, 

My warkis maid me na fupplie; 
Sa blind and waik was my fre will, 

That haitit the veritie ; 
My confcience keft me euer in cair, 
The Deuill he draif me to difpair, 

And hell was euer befoir myne eye. 

God had greit pitie on my wo, 

And aboue mefure fchew me grace; 

Quhen I was zit his cruell fo, 

Zit he wald cure my cairfull cafe : 

His lufe to me he did conuert 

From the maifl deipeft of his hart, 

Quhilk coift him deir to mak my peace. 

To his belouit Sone he faid, 

The tyme of mercy drawis neir, 
To faif man and the feind inuaid ; 

Thairfoir, my hartly Sone fa deir, 
Ga freith them from the feindis feid ; 
Thow mon ouirthraw fin, hell, and deid, 

Syne man reftoir baith haill and feir. 

. The Sone his Father did obey, 



42 Be blyitb. 

And come downe on the eird to me, 
Borne of ane Mayd, as wrytis Efay, 

My kynde fweit brother for to be ; 
He tuke on him my nature vyle, 
And did his power for to exyle, 

Sathan and all his fubteltie. 

He faid, Thow fall haue victorie, 

Gif thow alone on me depend : 
For I will giue my felf for the, 

Thy cairfull quarrell to defend; 
For I am thyne, and myne thow art, 
And of my gloir thow fall haue part, 

Syne ring with me withouttin end. 

They man fched out my blyffit blude, 

And reif alfwa my lyfe from me ; 
I thoill this only for thy gude, 

Beleue that flrme and fteidfaftlie : 
For my deid fall thy deid deuoir, 
That fin fall the condampne no moir, 

For be that way faif thow mon die. 

Syne fra this prefent lyfe I fair, 

To my Father Celeftiall ; 
Thy Mediator trew fall be thair 

And fend to the my Spreit I fall, 
To giue the confolatioun, 
In all thy tribulatioun ; 

The treuth he fall inftruft zow all. 

My doing leirning mair and les, 
That leir and do vnfenzeitlie ; 

For 



/ come from heuin to tell. 43 

For that dois Goddis Kirk incres, 

And his greit gloir dois magnifie. 
Be war of men and thair command, 
Quhilk me and my word do ganeftand, 

My Laft Will heir I leif to the. 

FINIS. 

% Ane Sang of the Birth of Chri/I, to be fung 'with 
the tune of Balulalow. 

I COME from heuin to tell, 
The befl nowellis that euer befell : 
To zow thir tythingis trew I bring 
And I will of them fay and fing. 

This day to zow is borne ane Chylde 
Of Mary meik, and Virgin mylde ; 
That blyffit bairne, bening and kynde 
Sail zow reioyce baith hart and mynde. 

It is the Lord Chrift, God and man, 
He will do for zow quhat he can ; 
Himfelf zour Sauiour will be, 
Fra fin and hell to mak zow fre. 

He is zour richt faluatioun, 
From euerlafting dampnatioun, 
That ze may ring in gloir and blis, 
For euer mair in heuin with his. 

Ze fall him find but mark or wying 
Full fempill in ane cribe lying ; 
Sa lyis he quhilk zow hes wrocht, 



44 I come from heuin to tell. 

And all this warld maid of nocht. 

Let us reioyce and be blyith, 
And with the Hyrdis go full fwyith, 
And fe quhat God of his grace hes done, 
Throw Chrifl to bring vs to his throne. 

My faull and lyfe fland vp and fe 
Quha lyis in ane cribe of tre : 
Quhat Babe is that, fa gude and fair ? 
It is Chrift, Goddis Sone and air. 

Welcome now, gracious God of micht, 
To finneris vyle, pure, and vnricht, 
Thow come to faif vs from diftres, 
How can we thank thy gentilnes ? 

O God that maid all creature, 
How art thow now becummin fa pure, 
That on the hay and ftray will ly, 
Amang the affis, oxin and ky. 

And war the warld ten tymes fa wyde, 
Cled ouir with golde and ftanis of pryde, 
Unworthie it war zit to the, 
Under thy feit ane ftule to be. 

The filk and fandell the to eis, 
Ar hay, and fempill fweilling clais, 
Quhairin thow gloris greiteft King, 
As thow in heuin war in thy ring. 

Thow tuik fie panis temporal!, 



To 



/ come from heuln to tell. 45 

To mak me riche perpetuall; 

For all this warldis welth and gude, 

Can nathing riche thy Celcitude. 

O my deir hart, zoung Jefus fweit, 
Prepair thy creddill in my fpreit, 
And I fall rocke the in my hart, 
And neuer mair fra the depart. 

Bot I fall praife the euer moir, 
With fangis fweit vnto thy gloir ; 
The kneis of my hart fall bow 
And fing that richt Balulalow. 

Gloir be to God eternallie, 
Quhilk gaue his only Sone for me : 
The Angellis joyis for to heir, 
The gracious gift of this New Zeir. 

FINIS. 

TO vs is borne a barne of blis, 
Our King and Empreour, 
Ane gratious Virgin mother is, 

To God hir Sauiour. 
Had not that blyffit Barne bene borne, 
We had bene euerie ane forlorne 

With Sin and feindis fell. 
Chrift Jefus, louing be to the 
That thow ane man wald borne be, 

To faif vs from the hell. 

For neuer was, nor fall be man, 
Nor woman in this lyfe : 



4 6 



To vs is borne. 



Sen Adam firft our fin began, 

And Eue his weddit wyfe, 
That can be faif throw thair gude deid ; 
For poy found all ar Adamis feid, 

And can not fin refraine ; 
Quhill God him felf fand the remeid, 
And gaue his only Sone to the deid, 

To freith vs from all paine. 

We fuld lufe God and myrrie be, 

And dryue away difpair : 
For Chrift is cummin from heuin fa hie, 

Our fall for to repair. 
Na toung fie kyndnes can expres : 
The forme of feruand takin hes, 

And Verbum caro faElum eft; 
Except Sin, lyke vnto vs all, 
To freith vs from the Feindis thrall, 

And mend quhair we did mis. 

Full weill is them for euer moir, 

That trowis faithfullie, 
Be grace to ring with Chrift in gloir, 

Throw faith allanerlie: 
And weill is them that vnderftude, 
The gracious gift of Chriftis blude, 

Sched finners for to win : 
Was neuer hard fa kynde ane thing ; 
Chrift for his fais on Croce did hing, 

To purge vs from our fin. 

Thus thank we him full hartfully, 
For his greit gentilnes : 



We 



In dulci jubilo. 47 

We pray him, for his greit mercy, 

Trew Preichouris till incres ; 
Fals Pharifians, and fenzeit lair, 
Quhome we haue folio wit kit and air, 

Baith them and vs forgiue, 
God, Father, Sone, and Haly Spreit, 
Inftruct vs in thy word fa fweit, 

And efter it to liue. — finis. 

IN dulci jubilo, now let vs fing with mirth & jo, 
Our hartis confolatioun lyis in prasepio ; 
And fchynis as the Sone, Matris in gremio. 
Alpha es & 0, Alpha es & 0. 

Jesu parvule, I thrift foir efter the : 
Confort my hart and mynde, Puer optime ! 
God of all grace fa kynde, et Princeps gloria, 
Trahe me pojl te; Trahe me pojl te, 

Vbifunt gaudia, in ony place, bot thair 
Quhair that the angellis fing, Noua Cantica, 
Bot and the bellis ring, in Regis curia. 
God gif I war thair : God gif I war thair ! 

ONLIE to God on heich be gloir, 
And louing be vnto his grace ; 
Quha can condampne vs ony moir, 
Sen we ar now at Goddis peace? 
In till his fauour we ar taine, 
Throw faith in Jefus Chrift allane, 

Be quhome his wraith fall end and ceis. 

We worfchip, and we loue and pryfe, 



48 Onlie to God. 

Thy Maieftie and magnitude ; 
That thow, God, Father only wife, 

Ringis ouer all with fortitude : 
Na toung can tell thy ftrenth nor micht, 
Thy wordis and thochtis all ar richt, 

And all thy warkis juft and gude. 

Lord Jefus Chrift, Sone only borne, 

Of thy Father Celeftiall: 
Thow fauit vs that was forlorne, 

Fra fin and hell, and Sathans thrall, 
Lord Goddis Lamb, thow tuke on the, 
For all our fin to fatisfie. 

Lord be mercyfull vnto vs [all], 

O Haly Gaift, our comfort gude, 
From feindis feid thy flocke defend, 

[Quhome Chrift had ransomit on the Rude :] 
To thy keiping we them commend : 

From errour and hypocrifie 

Strenth vs in the veritie, 
To perfeueir vnto the end. 

FINIS. 

^f Of the greit louing and blyithnes of Goddis word. 

LORD God, thy face and word of grace, 
^Hes lang bene hid be craft of men : 
Quhill at the laft, the nicht is paft, 

And we full weill thair falfet ken : 
We knaw perfyte the Haly wryte, 

Thairfoir be gloir and praife to The, 
Ouhilk did vs giue, this tyme to Hue, 
Thy word trew preichit for to fe. 

Our 



Lord God, t by face. 49 

Our barnis now weill knawis how, 

To worfchip God with feruice trew ; 
Quhilk mony zeir, our fatheris deir, 

Allace thairfoir, full fair mifknew ! 
Zit God did feid his chofin in deid, 

As Noe, and Lot, and mony mo : 
And had refpeft to his eleft, 

How euer the blind warld did go. 

Sen throw thy ftrenth, thy word at lenth 

Is preichit cleir befoir our ene : 
Be zit, gude Lord, mifericord 

To them quhilk zit difTauit bene, 
And nocht dois knaw bot mennis law, 

To thair greit dampnatioun; 
Teiche them fra hand to vnderftand 

Thy word to thair faluatioun. 

Quha wald be faif, firft this mon haue, 

To knaw thair fin, fyne trow in Chriit : 
Big on this ground, let lufe abound, 

With patience, prayer, hope and traift. 
On God thow call, thank him of all, 

To ferue thy nichtbour giue thy cure : 
Thy confcience fre mon euer be, 

This can giue the na creature. 

Thow, Lord abone, mon giue alone, 

Thir giftis for thy Haly name : 
Quha will thair hart to Chrift conuert, 

Na man can do them flcaith nor fchame : 
Thocht Paip or King wald fa maling, 

To mak the word of God forlorne : 



50 Lord God, t by face. 

Thair ftrenth fall faill, and not preuaill, 
Thocht thay the contrair all had fworne. 

Lord let thy hand help in all land, 

That thy Elect conuertit be, 
Thy word to leir, quhilk now dar fweir 

That thy Word is bot herifie. 
Thay giue thy word a fals record, 

Quhilk neuer hard the veritie ; 
iSTor neuer it red bot blindlingis led, 

With Doctouris of Idolatrie. 

The tyme is now, but dout I trow, 

Quhilk Paule did prophecie in writ, 
Thocht heuin and eird fuld ga areird, 

Thy word fall ftand faft and perflte. 
Thocht that maift part indure thair hart 

Setting thair ftrenth thy word againe-, 
Repent thay nocht, thay falbe brocht 

Eternally to hellis paine. 

Our Sauiour and Gouernour 

Is Chrift, quhais bludie woundis wyde, 
Redemit hes from all diftres, 

Sinneris that will on him confide. 
To him be gloir for euer moir, 

To vs quhilk hes ane promeis maid : 
Us to conuoy from paine to joy, 

Baith in our lyfe and in our deid. 

We hope and traift, the Haly Gaift 

Sail not forzet vs in our neid : 
Sa we thy Word with one accord 



Hald 



Lord, let thy feruand. 5 1 

Hald in our hart our faull to feid. 
Let vs not mis thy gloir and blis, 

Quhen fra this wretchit lyfe we wend : 
Grant vs thy grace to die in peace, 

And perfeueir vnto the end. 

FINIS. 

% Nunc dimittis, the Prayer of Symeon. 
JLuk ij. Chapter. 

LORD, let thy feruand now depart 
In glaidnefs, reft, and peace: 
I am reioycit at my hart, 
To fe his godly face, 
Quhome faithfully thow promeift me, 
Chrift Jefus, King of grace. 

This prefent deid fall be full fweit, 

And into fleip fall changit be : 
To reft, fyne ryfe, bot euer my Spreit 

Sail Hue, and be alwayis with the, 
Throw faith in Chrift my only traift, 

Quhome prefently I fe. 

Our Sauiour thow hes him maid, 

His deid fall faue vs all 
From fin and hell, the Deuill and deid : 

His Refurre£Houn fall 
Frelie vs giue, euer for to liue, 

In gloir perpetuall. 

Of Hethin folk, blindit fo foir, 

He is the verray licht, 
Quhilk neuer hard of him befoir, 
D. ij 



52 Chrift J ejus gaue him f elf to die. 

Nor faw him with thair ficht : 
He is the gloir, praife and decoir, 
And ftrenth of Ifrael richt. 

FINIS. 

^f An e fang of the Refurretlioun. 

CHRIST gaue him felf to. deid, 
And for our fault he mendis maid : 
For vs he fched his precious blude, 
With greit tryumphe vpon the Rude, 
And fin and Sathan thair hes flaine, 
And fauit vs from hellis paine. 

For he againe fra deid vp rais, 
Victour of deid, and all our fais ; 
He raif the obligatioun, 
Contrair to our faluatioun; 
Syne fpoylzeit Sathan, Hell and Sin, 
And Heuinlie gloir to vs hes win. 

And we ar now at Goddis peace, 
Throw Chrift refTauit to his grace, 
Our Father mercyfull he is, 
And we fall ring with him in blis. 
Allalua, allalua, Betiedicamus Domino. 

FINIS. 

^f Certaine Ballatis of the Scripture. 

TILL Chrift, quhome I am haldin for to lufe, 
I gif my thirlit hart in gouernance. 
How fuld I lufe, and fra his treuth remufe, 

Full 



Till Chrijl, qu home, &c. 5 3 

Full wo wer me, that drerie difTeuerance, 

Is na remeid, faif only efperance : 
For weill, for wo, for boift, or zit for fchoir, 
Quhair I am fet, I fall lufe euer moir. 

And fen I muft depart on neid, I fall 

Be till him trew, with hart, and that I hecht, 

And fen that I becummin am his thrall, 

With body him feme, with mynde&all mymicht: 
He is the rute of my remembrance richt, 

The verray crop, quhome of I comfort tak : 

Quhy fuld I not do feruice for his faik ? 

Quhome fuld I ferue, bot him that did me fauer 
Quhome fuld I dout, bot him that dantis deid ? 

Quhome fuld I lufe, bot him attour the laif ? 
Of all my wo he is the haill remeid : 
How fuld I fle, and can not find na feid? 

Quhome fuld I lufe, bot him that hes my hart ? 

How fuld we twin, that na man can depart? 

Thus vmbefet I am on euerie fyde, 

And quhat to do I can not weill deuife : 

My flefche biddis fle, my fpreit biddis me byde : 
Quhen cair cummis, then Comfort on me cry is ; 
Hope fayis get vp, then langour on me lyis, 

My panis biddis my wofull hart repent, 

Bot neuer mair thairto will I confent. 

Depart him fra, my hart will neuer confent ; 

It biddis me byde, and I fall neuer fle ; 
For be I takin, flaine, or zit fchent, 

For fie ane King it is na fchame to die. 
D. iij 



54 Richt foirly mufing. 

Gif thair be grace into this eird for me, 
It is committit from the heuin abufe, 
Till Chrift quhome I am haldin for to lufe. 

FINIS. 

RICHT foirly mufing in my mynde, 
For pitie foir my hart is pynde, 
Quhen I remember on Chrift fa kynde, 

that fauit me : 
Nane culd me faif from thyne till Ynde, 
bot only He. 

He is the way, trothe, lyfe, and licht, 
The verray port till heuin full richt, 
Quha enteris not be his greit micht 

ane theif is he : 
That wald prefume be his awin micht 

fauit to be. 

I grant that I haue faultie foir, 
To ftok and ftane geuand his gloir, 
And heipand warkis into ftoir, 

for my remeid : 
War not his mercy is the moir, 

I had bene deid. 

Thow lytill bill thy wayis thow wend, 
And fchaw my mynde from end to end, 
Till them that will repent and mend, 

thow fchaw them till: 
Beleue in Chrift, quhome God hes fend, 

and wirk his will. 

FINIS. 






Ricbt foir oppreft. 55 

RICHT foir oppreft I am with panis fmart 
Baith nicht and day, makand my wofull mone, 
To God for my mifdeid, quhilk hes my hart 
Put in fa greit diftres with wo begone : 
Bot gif he fend me fum remeid anone, 
I lift not lang my lyfe for till in dure, 
Bot to the deid bowne cairfull creature. 

I can not do my detfull obferuance, 

Till Him that heuin & all the world fuld dreid : 
Auld Adame is the caus of this mifchance, 

And turnis oft my faith in wickit deid. 

War not the deid of Chrift war my remeid, 
I lift not on my lyfe for till tak cure, 
Bot to the deid bowne cairfull creature. 

O God of gloir ! quhais micht is infinite, 

Grant me thy grace quhome fin haldis in thrall, 

To fecht aganis my flefhe, quhilk hes the wyte 
Of all my wo, and my appeirand fall : 
Thow gaue command, in neid on the to call, 

And for thy Sonnis faik I fuld be fure, 

That thow fuld faue all finfull creature. 

Remember, Lord, my greit fragilitie, 
Remember, Lord, thy Sonnis paffioun, 

For I am borne with all iniquitie 

And can not help my awin saluatioun : 
Thairfoir is my juftificatioun 

Be Chrift, quhilk cled him with my nature, 

To faue from fchame all finfull creature. 

O Lord ! fen thow thy word to me hes fend, 
Thow let it neuer returne to the in vaine, 
D.iiij 



5 6 Allace^ that fame f welt face. 

Bot let me perfeueir vnto the end ; 

To my auld fin let me not turne againe : 
For then bene far better into plaine, 
Not till haue hard thy precept in Scripture, 
Then, knawand it, die carefull creature. 

FINIS. 

ALLACE, that fame fweit face, 
That deit vpon ane tre, 
To purches mankynde peace, 
From fin to mak vs fre, 

Allone to be our remedie. 
To graith our place full meit 
He is afcendit hie, 
And left with vs his Spreit : 
To worihip Spirituallie, 

Onlie to be our remedie. 
He bad, quhen he was gone, 
Apply vs haillelie, 
To ferue our God alone, 
In Spreit and veritie, 

Alone to be our remedie. 
Na kynde of outward deid, 
How haly that euer it be, 
May faif vs at our neid, 
Nor zit vs juftifie, 

Nor zit can mak vs remedie. 
Bot Chrifl we neid nathing 
Quhair throw fauit we fuld be : 
He is ane potent King, 
And will alanerlie, 

Onlie be our remedie. 

His 






/ call on the^ Lord. 5 7 

His Teftament maift perfyte, 
Plainely dois teftifie, 
Quhilk his Apoftillis did wryte, 
That nane may faif bot he, 

Nor zit can mak vs remedie. 
Bot now, fen he is gone 
To ring eternallie, 
We worfchip flock and ftone, 
Can nouther heir nor fe, 

Nor zit can mak vs remedie. 
We haue dwelt all to lang 
In fals hypocrifie, 
Trew faith, Lord, mak vs fang, 
Wirkand be cheritie, 

Only to be our remedie. 

FINIS. 

I CALL on the, Lord Jefus Chrift, 
I haue nane vther help bot the, 
My hart is neuer fet at reft, 

Till thy fweit word comfort me. 
Ane fteidfaft faith grant me thairfoir, 

To hald be thy word euer moir, 
Abufe all thing, neuer refitting 

Bot to incres in faith moir and moir. 

Zit anis againe I call on the, 

Heir my requeft, O mercy full Lord ! 
I wald faine hope in thy mercie, 

And can not be thairto reftoird : 
Except thow illuminate with thy grace 

My blind and naturall waiknes, 
Caus me thairfoir haue hope in ftoir, 

In thy mercie and fweit promeis. 



58 I call on the. Lord. 

Lord, prent into my hart and mynde, 

Thy Haly Spreit with feruentnes : 
That I to the be not vnkynde 

Bot lufe the without fenzeitnes. 
Lat nathing draw my mynde from the, 

Bot euer to lufe the erneftlie ; 
Let not my hart unkyndly depart 

From the richt lufe of thy mercie. 

Giue me thy grace, Lord, I the pray, 

To lufe my enemeis hartfullie, 
Howbeit thay troubill me alway, 

And for thy caus do fclander me. 
Zit Jefus Chrift for thy gudnes, 

Fulfill my hart with forgiuenes ; 
That quhill I Hue, I them for giue, 

That do offend me mair and les. 

I am compaffit rounde about, 

With foir and ftrang temptatioun : 
Thairfoir, gude Lord, delyuer me out 

From all this wickit natioun : 
The Deuill, the warld, the fiefhe alfo, 

Dois follow me quhair euer I go, 
Thairfoir wald I delyuerit be, 

Thy help I feik, Lord, and no mo. 

Now feis thow, Lord, quhat neid I haif, 

Thair is none vther to plenze to: 
Thairfoir thy Haly Gaift I craif 

To be my gyde quhair euer I go, 
That in all my aduerfitie, 

I forzet not the lufe of the ; 

Bot 



Of mercies %it he pajjis all. 59 

Bot as thow, Lord, hes geuin thy word, 
Let me thairin baith Hue and die. 

FINIS. 



OF mercy zit he paffis all, 
In quhome I traift and euer fall; 
For to nane vther will I call, 
To die thairfoir, to die thairfoir. 

For thair is nane vther faluatioun 
Bot be that Lord that fufferit PafTioun ; 
Upon our Saulis he hes compaffioun, 
And deit thairfoir, and deit thairfoir. 

That Lord fa far had vs in mynde, 
He come from heuin and tuke mankynde; 
He haillit the feik, fair, lamit and blinde, 
And deit thairfoir, and deit thairfoir. 

To pray to Peter, James, or Johne, 
Our Saullis to faif, power haue thay none, 
For that belangis to Chrift allone, 
He deit thairfoir, he deit thairfoir. 

I traift to God of furetie, 
Be Chriftis blude fauit to be, 
In quhilk I hope fa faithfullie, 
To die thairfoir, to die thairfoir. 

Thair is na deidis, that can faue me, 
Thocht they be neuer fa grit plentie ; 
Bot throw Chrift, and his greit mercy, 
Quhilk deit thairfoir, quhilk deit thairfoir. 



60 Of mercies %lt he pajfis all. 

Gif deidis micht faue our Saulis from paine, 
Then Chriftis blude was fched in vaine, 
As ze may reid in Scripture plaine, 
To die thairfoir, to die thairfoir. 

Zit fum hes hope fauit to be 
For doing deidis of cheritie ; 
Faith can not faue quhair na deidis be, 
Thay lie thairfoir, thay lie thairfoir. 

The theif was faift be faith trewlie, 
And not for deidis of cheritie, 
As wrytis Luk, twentie and thre, 
To die thairfoir, to die thairfoir. 

Fyre without heit can not be, 
Faith will haue warkis of furetie, 
Als fail: as may conuenientlie 
Be done, but moir. 

Now Lord, that deit vpon ane tre, 
And fched thy blude fa plenteouflie 
RefTaue our Saullis to thy gloir 
We afk no moir, we afk no moir. 

FINIS. 

WE fuld into remembrance 
Of Jefus Chrift our King, 
Without ony diffimulance 
Be blyith, and myrrie fing. 

We war condampnit to the deid, 
In hell, for Adamis mis : 



Bot 



Wefuld into remembrance. 6 1 

Bot Jefus Chrift the peice hes maid 
Betuix God and vs. 

Chrift is our God and Sauiour, 

Our help and our refuge : 
Our Brother and our Mediatour 

Our Aduocate and Judge. 

Sen on our fyde is God him fell, 

Quha dar againe him pleid? 
For he hes vincuft fin and hell, 

The Deuill, and alfo deid. 

This greit gudnes that Chrift hes done, 

God let vs neuer forzet : 
Bot thank and loue that Lord abone, 

With fangis fweitly fet. 

FINIS. 

HAY, let vs fing, and mak greit mirth, 
Sen Chrift this day to vs is borne : 
For had not bene that blyffit birth, 
Mankynde alwayis had bene forlorne. 

All men wer borne in finfulnes, 

Condampnit to eternall deid : 
Except Chrift that in richteoufnes, 

Was only borne for our remeid. 

And he, gif we beleue, hes coift 

His innocens for our trefpas ; 
Had not bene Chrift we had bene loift ; 

O blyffit birth that euer was. 

FINIS. 



62 In Burgh and Land. 

IN Burgh and Land, eift, weft, north, south 
"We glorie for to fpeik of Chrift ; 
And his Euangell in our mouth, 

Bot far fra him our hartis, we wreift. 

To Goddis Law quha will aduert, 
Sail fteidfaft in his promeis traift, 

And lufe our brethren with our hart, 
And fle from fin, and vice deteft. 

Lufe is fulfilling of the Law, 

As Paule reheirfis in his wryt; 
Of Chrift nathing forfuith we knaw, 

That hes na faith, and lufe perfyte. 

The Scripture plainely dois accord, 
Quha will not wirk his Fatheris will, 

Bot fayis euerie day, Lord ! Lord ! 
Sail neuer cum in heuin him till. 

Brether and fifteris that will refort 

Till Chrift, and with his Gofpell mell, 

Do as ze fay, I zow exhort, 

And now na mair diftaue zour fell : 

Or God fall tak his word againe 

Fra vs, fyne will it fend 
To them that will not wirk in vaine, 

Bot perfeueir vnto the end. 

FINIS. 



Wefuld beleue. 63 

5f Am Sang contrair Idolatrie. 

WE fuld beleue in God abufe, 
And in nane vther thing; 
Quha traiftis in him, he will them lufe, 
And grant them thair afking. 

Contrair it is to Goddis command, 

To trow that help may cum, 
Of Idoles maid with mennis hand, 

Quhilk ar baith deif and dum. 

Quha dois adorne Idolatrie, 

Is contrair the haly writ : 
For flock and ftaine is Mammontrie, 

Quhilk men may carue or quhite. 

The Apoftillis that wrait the veritie, 

Exprefly do conclude, 
That Idoles fuld deteftit be, 

As contrair to Chriftis blude. 

Ze fempill pepill vnperfite, 

Greit ignorance may ze tell, 
Of flock and ftaine hes mair delite, 

Then into God him fell. 

FINIS. 

f Am Ballot of the Epiftill on Chriflin- 
rnes Euin. 

THE Grace of God appeiris now, 
Our helth and our faluatioun, 
To teiche and inftruft vs how, 
In all countrie and natioun. 






64 The Grace of God appeiris now. 

That we fuld leue our wickitnes, 

And fie vaine wardly appetyte, 
Juft, haly, be with fobernes, 

Leif in the warld a lyfe perfyte. 

That blyffit hope for to abyde, 

The cumming of greit God of gloir, 

And Jefus ChrifHs woundis wyde, 
The Sauiour of les and moir. 

Quhilk for our faik he gaue him fell, 
To faif from fin, and purge vs cleir, 

Ane chofm pepill in fpeciall, 
In gude warkis to perfeueir. 

To ftudie in them nicht and day, 
Thus we fuld ane exhort ane vther, 

Of Goddis word to ling and fay, 
And euery man to lufe his brother. 

FINIS. 

OF thingis twa I pray the, Lord, 
Deny me not befoir I die, 
All vanitie and leand word, 

Full far away thow put fra me. 

Extreme pureteth, nor greit riches, 

Thow giue me not in na kin wife; 
Bot only of thy greit gudnes, 

Giue me that may my neid fuffice. 

For be I riche, I may perchance, 

Say, Quha is God, and him milknaw ; 

And 



Lord^ Father^ God. 65 

And na thing bot my felf aduance, 
And him forzet and all his Law. 

Or be I pure, and haue na geir, 

Than man I outher reif or fteill. 
Or than my Goddis name manefweir, 

And fet him at full lytill vaill. 

FINIS. 

LORD, Father, God that gaif me lyfe, 
Thow leif me not to do my will : 
Bot grant thy grace to me catiue, 
Thy godlie Law for to fulfill. 

The prydefull luking of myne eine, 

Lat nocht be rutit in my hart : 
All euill defyre that in me bene, 

Full far from me thow wald aduart. 

Ane gredie flomokis appetyte, 

And all furfet thow tak from me : 
And als I pray the mak me quyte, 

Of flefchelie lull: and licherie. 

Remoue from me all thrawardnes, 
Als weill in mynde as outward deid : 

And tak from me vnfchamefaftnes, 
And God and man to lufe and dreid. 

FINIS. 

BLIS, bliffit God, thir giftis gude, 
Quhilk thow hes geuin to be our fude ; 
Us blis, and mak thankfull in deid, 
E.j 



66 Grace befoir Denner. 

Be Jefus Chrift, that bliffit feid. 

In quhome all bliffing we reffaif, 

Be quhome all bliffing we afk and craif. 

Grant bliffing, Lord of michtis maift, 

God, Father, Sone, and Haly Gaift. 

FINIS. 

Bliffing, gloir, wifdome, & hardy thankfulnes, 
And godly honouris all micht and fortitude, 
We offer the, Lord, with lawly humbilnes, 
Committing our felfis haill to thy celfitude, 
Afking, for Chrift, quhilk for vs gaue his blude, 
Grace for to be in hart and mynde thankfull, 
For all thy gude and fre giftis plentifull. 

FINIS. 

NOW let vs fmg, with joy and mirth, 
In honour of our Lordis birth, 
For his lufe and humanitie, 
Quha gaue him felf for vs to die. 

Be Adame we wer all forlorne, 
Bot now Chrift Jefus till vs is borne, 
Hes fred vs fra captiuitie, 
And vincuft hes our enemie. 

Quhen he was borne, nane did him fnib, 
To ly richt law intill ane crib : 
Ane oxe, ane affe, richt tenderlie, 
Refrefchit his humanitie. 

His Godheid myfteris na fupport 

For 



Come let vsjing. 67 



For it was full of all comfort ; 
Quhilk equall is in all degre, 
Unto his Fatheris maieftie. 

. The Angellis fang with mirrynes, 
Unto the Hyrdis mair and les, 
And bad them of gude comfort be, 
For Chriftis new Natiuitie. 

For we [ye] war all at Goddis home ; 
This Babe to zow that now is borne, 
Sail mak zow faif, and for zow die, 
And zow reftoir to libertie. 

This Babe for zow did fched his blude, 
And tholit deid vpon the Rude : 
And for his greit humanitie, 
Exaltit is his Maieftie. 

And now he is our Aduocate, 
Prayand for vs baith air and lait : 
This can the Scripture verifie, 
In fa far as ane man is he. 

Thairfoir all tyde, tyme, and hour, 
Pas vnto him as Mediatour 
Betuix the Fatheris wraith and the, 
Of fin gif thow wald clengeit be. 

For he hes promeift with his hart 
To all finneris that will reuart, 
And fra thair finfull lyfe will fle, 
Sail ring with him eternallie. 
E.ij 



68 Quha can difcriue. 

To God the Father mot be gloir, 
And als to Chrift for euer moir, 
The Haly Gaift mot bliffit be, 
Wirkar of this Natiuitie. 

FINIS. 

QVHA can difcriue or put in write, 
The grace and mercy of our Lord ? 
Quhais godly giftis infinite, 
Men fuld remember and record, 
Conforme vnto his haly word. 

Our Father, God, fontaine of grace, 
His Sone did fend to ranfoun vs 

From Sin, and all our cairfull cafe, 
And from the Deuill maift dangerous. 
And flew that Serpent vennemous. 

Chrift come rycht fweit, as ane feruand, 
Of feruitude to mak vs fre : 

And broken hes the Deuillis band, 
Quhilk led vs in captiuitie : 
Quhairfoir we thank his grit mercie. 

Chrift beand ryche in heuinlie gloir, 
And we rycht pure and in diftres, 

Did mak vs riche for euer moir : 
Quhairfoir we thank his gentilnes, 
Be reffoun of his greit gudnes. 

Chrift come full humbill and full law, 

Us to exalt in majeftie: 
And tholit panis, as ze knaw, 



Of 



Qiiha can difcriue. 69 

Of hounger, cauld, and miferie ; 
And we gat lyfe quhen he did die. 

Chrift als difcendit to the hell, 
And vs redemit from that paine : 

And from the deith did rais him fell, 
Na mair to thoill the deid againe, 
As we may reid in Scripture plaine. 

Chrift maid vs juft quhen he vp rais, 
Be reflbun of his vi&orie : 

Quhair throw he vincuft all our fais, 
Sin, Deid, and Deuill our enemie, 
And from thair bandis maid vs fre. 

Chrift paffit to the heuinnis hie, 
To graith ane place for vs in gloir, 

Our Aduocate thairfoir to be : 
Heirfoir his grace let vs imploir, 
That we with him ring euer moir. 

FINIS. 

GIF ze haue riffin from deid againe, 
With Chrift our cheif and foueraine, 
Quhilk did the inward man renew, 
Gloir not in eirdly thingis vaine, 
Bot in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

Seik thingis abufe that ar not feine, 
Nor neuer fall with carnall eine : 

Do diligence for till fubdew 
The flefche, the outward man I meine, 

And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 
E: iij 



jo Gifze haue rijfin from deid. 

Honour it with feruent defyre, 
And I fall fwa zour Spreit infpyre, 

Ay quhen temptatioun dois zow perfew, 
Of lychorie fall flokkin the fyre, 

And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

Quhen auarice, pryde, or ony fin, 
Into zour memberis dois begin, 

Than pray with feruent hart and trew, 
That ze may be of Ifackis kin, 

And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

And delf with deip into zour land 
As Ifack did, quhill that he fand 

The water of lyfe, of heuinly hew, 
Quhilk is now fillit with eird and fand, 

And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

Honour the image of the Croce, 
Not cryand out with curious voyce, 

Bot in the Spreit, as it is dew ; 
His gudnes that reftorit the lofe, 

And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

His image is his word compleit, 
Performit be the Haly Spreit, 

Quhilk from the Father fprang and grew, 
Thair is na image half fa fweit, 

As gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

Gif ze lufe Chrift, hait not his word ; 
His leuing image, it is na bourd, 

Ouha hchtleis it, fall not efchew 

* Of 



Gifxe hane rijjin from deid. 71 

Of vengeance the abbominabill fword, 
And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew 

Siclyke of Juda the Lyoun ftrang, 
Upon the Croce he grat and hang, 

Quhen he was raifit he ouerthrew 
The Serpent, and his vennemous ftang, 

And gloird in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

The decreit and fchairp hand write, 
That ftoppit vs fra the Father quyte, 

Furth of the myndes he withdrew, 
And iixt it to the Croce periite, 

And gloird in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

Syne the Jewes that wer legall, 
And Gentiles, that from Adames fall, 

Sa mony zeiris thair God mifknew 
Maid baith ane body myfticall, 

And gloiris in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

Let vs, thairfoir, with Paull now fing, 
Away from vs all vifibill thing, 

Sing to the Lord ane fang of new, 
Of laude, prais, and comforting, 

And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

With fpirituall lufe let vs proceid, 

Nocht lyke the Jewes with feir and dreid ; 

Sing to the Lord ane fang richt trew, 
That was borne of King Dauids feid, 

And gloir in the Croce of Chrift Jefew. 

FINIS. 

E. iiij 



72 Quha fuld my melodle amend. 

QVHA fuld my melodie amend, 
Or folace fwiftly to me fend, 
Quha fuld me fuccour or fupplie, 
Quha fuld me from the deid defend, 
Bot God, my lufe, in heuin fa hie ? 

Imploir his grace quhair we offend, 
And do our former lyfe amend : 

Giue honour only to that King 
In quhome our hope allone depend, 

And lufe him alfo ouer all thing. 

Nixt lufe zour nichtbour as zour fell, 
Euill thochtis from zour mynde expell : 

Quhair Spreit is waik afk comforting 
At Him quhilk creat heuin and hell : 

Lufe God in heuin attour all thing. 

Do gude for euill, and leif zour will, 
Not gude for gude, nor euill for euill, 

Than ze prefent ane peirles fmg, 
Of lyfe ferene, the warld vntill : 

Lufe God in heuin attour all thing. 

Thocht thow perfwaid this threid flyding 
Quhilk ay increffis moir and moir, 

Think weill on heuinlie gouerning 
This warld is nocht bot tranfitoir, 

And lufe thy God attour all thing. 

Quha feruis the warld gais amis, 
And fall be far from heuinnis blis : 
For quhy? in Scripture is founding 

Na 



The Conceptioun of Chrijl. 73 

Na wicht can feme twa Lordis I wis : 
Lufe God in heuin attour all thing. 

FINIS. 

The Conceptioun of Chrifl. 

LET vs reioce and fmg, 
And praife that michtie King, 
Quhilk fend his Sone of a Virgine bricht. 
La. Lay. La. 

And on him tuke our vyle nature, 
Our deidlie woundis to cure, 
Mankynde to hald in richt. 
La. Lay. La. 

Sanft Luk wrytis in his Gospell, 
God fend his Angell GabrieU, 
Unto that Virgine but defame. 
La. Lay. La. 

For to fulfill the Prophefie, 
Was fpoufit with Jofaph fre, 
Mary fcho had to name : 

La. Lay. La. 

Thir wordis to hir he did reheirs. 
Haill Mary ! full of grace, 
The Lord God is with the. 
La. Lay. La. 

Thow blyffit Virgine mylde, 
Thow fall confaue ane Chylde 
The pepill redeme fall he : 

La. Lay. La. 

Quhais power and greit micht, 
Sail be in Goddis ficht, 

Quhilk from the Father of micht is fend, 



74 The Conceptioun of Chriji. 

La. Lay. La. 

Jefus his name ze call, 
Quhilk falbe Prince ouir all 

His Kingdome fall haue nane end. 
La. Lay. La. 

Than fpak that Virgin fre, 
Behald, how fall this be, 
Seeing I knaw na man ? 

La. Lay. La. 

Than faid the Angell chaift, 
Be the power of the Haly Gaift, 
Quhilk all thing wirk he can. 
La. Lay. La. 

Elizabeth thy coufmg alfo, 
Sex monethis with chylde can go, 
At quhais birth greit joy fall be: 
La. Lay. La. 

Call him Johne, fayis the Angell bricht, 
Quhilk is fend be Goddis micht, 
The Lordis way prepair fall he. 
La. Lay. La. 

FINIS 

Heir endis the Spiritual! Sangis, and beginnis the 

Pfalmes of Dauid, with vther new plea/and Bal- 

lattis. TranJIatit out of Enchiridion 

Pfalmorum to be Jung. 



Q 



Square fremuerunt gentes. Pfal. ij. 

VHAT is the caus, O God omnipotent, 
That all natiounis commouit ar fa foir? 

The 



Quhat is the caus. 75 

The Kingis and the pepill with ane confent, 
Refiftis the, thy power and thy gloir. 
That ftryue againe thy law ay moir and moir, 
And contrair Chrift thy Sone quhome thow hes 
To faif all man that will on him depend. [fend, 

Thay will not be reformit from thair fin, 
Bot will remaine blindit in ignorance, 

And will not thoill to hike thy law within, 
Bot caftis it away with greit greuance : 
Thy counfell they refufe and gouernance, 

And following thair awin hartis confait, 

Euerie man drawis a findrie gait. 

Bot thow, O God, in heuin into thy ring, 
Thow makis all thair counfels euerie one, 

Quhat thay intend, that fall thay neuer bring 
To finall end ; for thy wifdome allone 
Thair pregnant wittis fall fcorne, and anone, 

In thy greit ire, thow fall them fair reprufe, 

And from thy face thow fall them fwyith remufe. 

For God hes fet a captaine ftark and wicht, 

Chrift [h]is awin Sone, God and man naturall, 

On Mont Sion to reule it juft and richt, 
That is to fay, his Kirk Uniuerfall, 
To teiche his Fatheris word celeftiall : 

His godly will and plefure for to fchaw, 

Inftructing all the warld into his Law. 

God faid to him, Thow art my Sone and air, 

I the begat, for euer and this day, 
Thy deid purcheft victorie preclair, 



7t 



Qnhat is the cans. 



Syne from the deid thow rais, to ring for ay, 
My chofm in the fall not cum to decay, 
Quha trewlie traiftis in thy godlie name, 

Sail neuer die eternallie I plane. 

My Sone, I will the geue all natiounis 
In heritage, and put thame in thy cure : 

To reule thame with thy miniflra*tiounis, 

And preif thame with the Croce at thy plefure, 
To purge thair fleflilie luft, and mak thame pure, 

And for to rais thair myndis fpirituall, 

To pryfe thy name now and perpetuall. 

Heirfoir Kingis and Rewlaris now be war, 
Aduert till Goddis word and difcipline. 

RefTaif his Sone, abone all thing prefar 

His godlie word, and keip weill his doftrine : 
Leir him to dreid, and traift in till him fyne, 

Quhilk is the trew wirfhip and rychteoufnes, 

That God requyris of mankynd mair and les. 

RefTaif thairfoir his fweit correclioun, 
That he na mair with zow ofFendit be ; 

Befoir your eine with trew affec~tioun, 
And in zour hart ze haif him identlie. 
Obey his law, for quhen greuit is he, 

Than quha dar his juft jugement abyde 

Bliffit ar they, quhilk on him dois confyde. 

FINIS. 

Saluwn me fac. ' Pfal. xj . 

SAIF vs, gude Lord, and fuccour fend, 
For peryfit is halynes : 

And 



Saue vs^gude Lord. 77 

And treuth away from men is wend, 

And fled fra thame is faithfulnes : 
Diffait amang thame fa is fa win, 
The veritie may nocht be knawin ; 

Thair tungis ar full of feinzetnes. 

Thair leing tungis, O Lord, cut out, 
That fpeikis in to thy contemptioun : 

And fayis in all place round about, 
Our tungis hes ane exemptioun, 

Euin as we pleis, our lip pis may lie, 

For we haue all authoritie ; 
Nane hes of vs dominioun. 

Bot God hes faid, and will it keip, 

I will ryfe vp incontinent, 
For the oppreft that fair dois weip, 

And murning of the indigent. 
The pure that vexit is fo foir, 
I will them faue, and them reftoir 

Fra wickit toungis teichement. 

And Goddis word and promit 

Is trewar, cleirar, and mair pure, 
Then filuer feuin tymes purifyit : 

Sen that thow art in word fa fure, 
Thow faue vs from fie fort of men, 
And fra the doctrine that they ken 

Eternally on vs tak cure. 

Quhen hypocrites ar principal!, 

And hieft in authoritie : 
On force the pepill follow fall 



78 Lord, how lang. 

Thair falfet and hypocrifie. 
The pepill follow mon, on neid, 
Thir Prelatis and thair wickit deid, 

Baith blindit from the veritie. 

FINIS. 

Vfque quo Domine. Pfal. xxij. with the tune of 
Ex audi, DeuSy orationem me am. 

OLORD, how lang for euer wil thow forzet, 
And hyde thy face fra me, or zit how lang 
Sail I reheirs thy counfell in my hart ? 
Quhen fall my hart ceis of this forie fang ? 
O Lord, behald, help me, and licht my eine, 
That fuddand fleip of deid do me na teine. 

Or ellis quhen my enemeis feis my fall, 
We did preuaill, fone will thay fay on me : 
And gif thay fe me be thame brocht in thrall, 
Thay will reioyce into thair tyrannie 
Bot I in God hes hope, and traift to fe 
His godly help, than fall I loue the Lord 
Quhilk did me faue fra them that had me fchord. 

FINIS. 

Domine, quis habit abit ? Pfal. xxiiij. 

OLORD, quha fall in heuin dwell with the, 
In thy triumphant throne and tabernakil ? 
Or quha fall on thy haly hill fa hie 

Mak refidence, and haue his habitakill ? 
The innocent, that is ane fpeclakill 
Of haly lyfe and conuerfatioun, 

And 



Lord^ quhafall. 79 

And juft in all his operatioun. 

And he quhilk on the treuth hes all his thocht, 
And with his toung the fame for till furthfchaw, 

And quhais toung his nichtbour noyis nocht, 
And hurtis nane be boift, nor zit be blaw ; 
And thocht his nichtbouris faute or vice be 

He fcornis not : bot dois till his brother [knaw 

As that he wald till him did ony vther. 

He that hes in na reputatioun 

The wickit men, in nurifching thair vice, 

With flatterie, and adulatioun-, 

And all gude men he haldis into pryfe, 
And thay that dreidis God he countis wife. 

Quhat euer he fweir to ony man, or say, 

His promeis he will keip without delay. 

Na occour will he vfe intill his lane, 

Bot frely with his nichtbour len and borrow ; 

Contrair the juft, rewaird he will tak nane, 

Bot him defend from fyre, fchame, and forrow. 
This will he do at midnicht and at morrow. 

Quhat euer he be that weill obferuis this, 

Sail neuer perifhe, but ring in heuinis blis. 

FINIS. 

Dominus regit me. Pfal. xxiij. 

THE Lord God is my Paftor gude, 
Aboundantly me for to feid ; 
Then how can I be deftitute 
Of ony gude thing in my neid ? 



80 The Lord is my Pa/lor. 

He feidis me in feildis fair, 
To riueris fweit, pure and preclair, 
He dryuis me but ony dreid. 

My faull and lyfe he dois refrefche, 
And me conuoyis in the way 

Of his juftice and richteoufnes, 
And me defendis from decay : 

Not for my warkis verteoufnes, 

Bot for his name fa glorious, 

Preferuis me baith nicht and day. 

And thocht I wauer, or ga will, 
Or am in danger for to die, 

Na dreid of deid fall cum me till, 
Nor feir of cruell tyrannie. 

Becaus that thow art me befyde, 

To gouerne me and be my gyde, 
From all mifcheif and miferie. 

Thy ftaffe quhair of I ftand greit awe, 
And thy fcheip huke me for to fang; 

Thay nurture me, my fautes to knaw, 
Quhen fra the hie way I ga wrang : 

Thairfoir my spreit is blyith and glaid, 

Quhen on my flefche thy fcurge is laid, 
In the richt way to gar me gang. 

And thow ane tabill dois prouyde, 
Befoir me, full of all delyte, 

Contrair to my perfewaris pryde, 
To thair diipleafure and difpyte. 

Thow hes anointed weill my heid, 



And 



Ze richteous, rejoyce. 8 1 

And full my coupe thow hes maid, 
With mony difches of delyte. 

Thy gudnes and benignitie 

Let euer be with me thairfoir ; 
And quhill I Hue, vntill I die, 

Thow lay them vp with me in floir ; 
That I may haue my dwelling place 
Into thy hous, befoir thy face, 

To ring with the for euer moir. 

FINIS. 

Exult ate Jujli in Domino. Pfal. xxxiij. 

ZE Richteous, rejoyce, and loue the Lord 
Juft men, to thank thair God, dois weil accord. 
Play on zour lute, & fweitly to it fmg, 

Tak harpe in hand with mony luftie firing : 
Tyrle on the ten ftringit inftrument, 

And prais zour God with hart, and hail intent : 
Sing na auld thing the quhilk is abrogate, 

Bot fing fum new plefand perfite ballat : 
Blaw vp organis with glaid and heuinly found, 

Joyfull in hart, quhilk all the fkyis refound : 
For Goddis word is treuth and veritie, 

And dois all his deidis faithfullie. 
The Lord lufis juftice and richteoufnes, 

And all the eird is full of his gudnes. 
The heuinnis hie wer creat be the Lord, 

Thair ornamentis wer dreffit be his word. 
He heipis vp the wateris lyke ane hill, 

Syne turnis them in deip quhen that he will. 
Dreid ze the Lord, all dwelleris on the ground, 

And wirfchip him all hant the warld fa round. 
F.j 



82 Ze richteous, rejoyce. 

Quhat God decretis is done incontinent, 

All creature obeyis his commandement. 
The counfellis of the wickit and deuyfe, 

He perturbis, appeirand euer fa wyfe: 
He fcornis all thair confolatioun, 

And wicket pepillis imaginatioun : 
Bot his counfell fall left perpetuall, 

And fall indure till generations all. 
Full happy is the pepill maift and leift, 

Quhilk in thair God & Lord hes all thair traift, 
And quhome that God do cheis before all aige, 

Thame to pofTeid in proper heritage. 
The Lord lukis furth of his heuinlie fait, 

And perfauis all men of euerilk ftait : 
From his tryumphant throne he dois beholde 

All natiounis, and dwellaris on the molde: 
For he allone did creat all thair hartis, 

And he allone dois knaw all thair warkis. 
The King is not faif be his greit armie, 

Nor gyand faif be ftrenth of his bodie : 
The bardit hors in neid fall men diffaif, 

And mony thoufand hors may na man faif. 
The eyis of the Lord thay do aduert 

To them that dreidis him with all thair hart, 
Traifting his godly help with patience, 

To faif thair lyfe in tyme of peftilence ; 
And in the tyme of derth them for to feid ; 

And be thair only help in all thair neid. 
Thairfoir, my Saull, in God put thy beleif, 

Our ftrenth and targe to faif vs fra mifcheif : 
Our hart falbe into the Lord joyous, 

Sen we traift in thy name maift glorious. 

Affift 



"Thow fall not follow. 83 

Affift to vs, O Lord, for thy gudnes, 
Ellin as we traift in thy greit gentilnes. 

FINIS. 

Noli amulari in malignantibus. Pfal. xxxvij. 

THOW fall not follow wickit menis wayis, 
Nor zit murne that finfull haue gude dayis ; 
For lyke the widderit hay fone fall thay faid, 

And as the graffe that wallowis rute and blaid ; 
Bot in the Lord put thow thy haill beleif, 

And wirk his will, and not that may him greif ; 
And than the frutefull land thow fall poffes 

Aboundantlie, and fall haue grit riches. 
Into the Lord put all thy haill delyte, 

And he fall grant thy hartis appetyte. 
Schaw furth befoir the Lord thy mynd and will, 

And traift in him, he fall it weill fulfill : 
Than, as the goldin morning fchynis bricht, 

Sa fall thy juftice fchyne till euerie wicht; 
And as the sone in midday fchawis fair, 

Sa fall thy vertew knawin be alquhair. 
Upon the Lord haue euer thyne intent, 

Befoir thyne eine, and haue him ay prefent ; 
And mufe the not at thair profperitie, 

That leuis all thair lyfe wrangouflie. 
Remoue rancour and ire furth of thy thocht, 

The ill exempill of the wickit follow nocht : 
For cruell men fall fane deftroyit be ; 

Bot quha abydis the Lord pacientlie, 
Sail bruke the land, and his poffeffioun 

Full peciabillie, without oppreffloun. 
Suffer a lytill quhile, and thow fall fe, 
F.ij 



84 Thow fall not follow. 

The wickit man perifhe befoir thyne E : 
Thow fall behald him, and his manfioun, 

Be brocht to nocht, and vtter confufioun. 
But humbill men fall inherite the eird, 

And leif in peace fra wickit mens reird. 
The fmful man with euill will await, 

The innocent that can mak na debait ; 
With countenance aufteir fall on him gyrne, 

His irefull hart with baill fall euer byrne. 
Bot thow, gude Lord, fall lauch thame all to fcorne, 

And knawis the tyme that thay falbe forlorne. 
The cruell men fall draw thair birnift brand, 

And haue thair bow bent reddy in thair hand, 
For till flay the meik and innocent, 

That thay may cum to thair wicket intent. 
Thair awin fword fall ftryke thame throw the 

And broken fall thair bow be in all part, [hart, 
The lytill of the just is mair commendit, 

Sa that it be weill win, and better fpendit, 
Than is the grit ryches of wickit men, 

Quhair throw thay do baith God & man mifken. 
The power of the wickit fall decay ; 

Bot God fall preferue the just man for ay : 
The tymes of the juft God dois record, 

Thair heritage falbe with God the Lord: 
In tyme of perrell thay fall not be agaft, 

And in grit derth thair fude falbe adreft. 
Bot wickit men fall perifhe in thair neid ; 

And thay that of the gude Lord hes na dreid, 
Lyke Sacrifice thay fall confumit be, 

Quhairof bot reik, thow can na mair fe. 
The wickit man will tak, and wil not pay, 

The 



Tkow fall not follow. 85 

The juft frelie wil gif without delay. 
Quha luiffis him, and of him fpeikes gude, 

Sail bruke the land ; bot quha will delude, 
Or dois blafpheme the kynde and liberall, 

Sail ruttit be furth of memoriall. 
The paithis of the juft God dois direft, 

He luiffis him and will him not neglect. 
Suppofe he fall be fey, or zit be land, 

God will erect him with his helping hand. 
I haue bene zung, and cum now to grit age, 

Zit faw I neuer the juft left in thirlage, 
Nor zit haue fene his pofteritie, 

Beggand thair breid for grit neceilitie. 
Bot he will giue and len his gude at large, 

Till thame that myfter hes, & will him charge, 
Zit fall his feid leif into plenteoufnes, 

Aboundantly pofTes grit riches 
He leuis ill, and followis gude thairfoir, 

With* God he fall ring euer moir. 
The Lord luiffis juftice and equitie, 

And leuis not his Sanctis in miferie. 
For he on thame perpetuallie hes cure, 

Bot wickit mennis feid fall not indure, 
Juft men with joy the eird fall pofTes, 

And dwell lang tyme on it, and haue fucces. 
The juft mannis mouth exercis fapience, 

Of equitie ay fpeikand of prudence. 
The law of God is in his hart fa haill, 

In all his way is thairfoir he can nocht faill. 
The wickit dois obferue the innocent, 

To feik to flay him with cruell intent. 
Bot God will not him leif into his neid, 
F. iij 



86 Thow fall not follow. 

Bot will him faif fra tyrannis wickit deid. 
Thay can not him condampne ; quhen thay accufe 

Preferuit sail he be from thair abufe. 
Traill: in the Lord, and keip weill his command, 

And he fall the exalt in euerie land. 
Poffes the eird thow fall, and with thyne E, 

The wickit men deftroyit fall thow fe. 
Sum tyme a tyrane flureis haue I fene, 

Lyke lawrel tre quhilk euer growis grene : 
Bot in fchort tyme fune was he brocht to nocht ; 

He was not found, nor that belangit him ocht. 
Keip juftice, and haue E vnto the richt, 

That fal mak peace for euer with God of micht : 
For wrangus men fall end mifcheuoullie, 

And wickit mennis fyne his miferie. 
The juft all haill vpon the Lord dependis, 

Quhilk is his ftrenth, & all tyme him defendis, 
God helpis him and fendis him fupplie, 

And fauis him fra tyrannis crueltie ; 
Becaufe in him he did put his trail!:, 

Into his trublis [nocht] culd him moleil. 

FINIS. 

Ex audi Deus orationem meant. Pfal. lxiiij. 

OLORD, aduert vnto my voce and cry, 
Now quhen I pray vnto thy MajefHe. 
From dredour of my mortall ennemie, 
Defend my lyfe, and als delyuer me : 
Defend me from the fals fubtellitie 
Of wickit men, and from the cruelnes, 
Of thame that alwayis wirk vnrichteoufnes, 

Fra 



Lord^ aduert. 87 

Fra thame that hes thair tungis fcharp & ground, 
And fcharper than ony twa edgeit fword, 

Lyke deidly dartis thow geuis ftang & ftound. 
Rycht fa proceidis of thair mouth euerie word, 
Quhairwith to flay thay think it bot a bourd, 

The innocent with fecreit dLTemblance, 

Without dredour of Goddis vengeance. 

Thay haue deuyfit abbominatioun 

Amang thame felfis in thair malicioufnes. 

Richt priuelie is thair communicatioun, 
To fet thair nettis with clokit craf tines, 
With fie deuice as it war halynes, 

That na man fuld thair violence efpye, 

Quhilk wald reuenge thair fals hypocrifie. 

Thair counfell is to feirche and to inquyre, 
The innocent with wrang for till accufe ; 

In all this warld thay haue na mair defyre, 
For euer in thair mynde of this thay mufe, 
Quha will delay it, thay will mak na refufe 

Of fa or fule, and for fufpitioun, 

Thay will bring men vnto confufioun. 

Bot now na mair thair malice fall remaine, 
For God fall ftryke them in fchort fefoun, 

Of quhome thay falbe plaguit with grit paine, 
Aiid men fall hald thame in derifioun : 
Thair tungs falbe thair awin confufioun, 

Quhilk was fa fcharp in contrair innocence, 

That for thame felfis thay fall mak na defence. 

Quhen men fall fe this haiftie fuddand change, 
F. iiij 



88 . Till trew in hart. 

Than fall thay wonder and cleirlie vnderftand, 1 
That it is God quhilk dois his awin reuenge, 
All men fal fe this wark of Goddis hand, 
And fall weill knaw, that nane can him withftand. 
The juft fall traift in God, and als rejoyis, 
And all trew hartis fall joy to heir this noyis. 

FINIS. 

Quam bonus Deus Ifrael. Pfal. lxxiij. 

TILL trew in hart God of Ifraell is fweit, 
Bot ftakerand almaift failzeit my feit, 
Quhen I beheld thir peruerft wickit men 
Profper alway, thocht thay did God mifken. 

Thair is na zock thir wickit men may oppres. 
Bot euer in welth, plefour and grit riches, 
Quhen vther men ar trublit, and difefit, 
With all paflime full plefandlie thay ar eafit. 

Throw quhilk thay ar exaltit in to pryde, 
Thair violence and wrang walkis full wyde 
Throw thair grit micht in alkin luft thay leif, 
Quhat thay can think vnto thair hart thay geif. 

Quhat euer is done, thay think it vanitie, 
Bot giue that thay the authoure of it be ; 
God of heuin thay blafpheme with thair mouth, 
To curs all men thay think it na vncouth. 

For this the peple dois flow to and fra, 
Quhen thay the wickit with welth fe do fwa, 
Thay dar be bald to dout giue God dois knaw, 
Or vnderftand the breking of his law. 

And 



Till trew in hart. 89 

And I alfo thocht thair profperitie 

Siild euer indure with thame eternallie; 

And thocht vnto my felf I did offence, 

That wufche my handis, and leuit in innocence. 

To thole diftres, I thocht it was in vaine, 
Baith day and nicht to tak on me fie paine. 
Quhen I had lang argound on fie a kinde, 
The sonnis of God I dampnit in my minde. 

I tuke trauell on this to knaw the treuth, 
Bot all for nocht, my laubour was bot fleuth. 
Quhen I fall enter in Goddis fecreit place, 
Than fall I fe thair end befoir my face. 

Full flydrie is the fait that thay on fit, 
And for thair fault till hell fune fall thay flit : 
For fuddenlie thay fall die with mifcheif, 
Thair deftructioun fall be without releif. 

As quhen ane man awalkis of his dreame, 
Sa fall the Lord deftroy thair fulifche fame : 
Quhen I had this imaginatioun 
My dullie fpreit was in greit paffioun. 

Imprudently this brint I in my thocht, 
In thy prefence as brutall beift of nocht, 
Zit leit thow not me fall on fie ane fort, 
Bot held my hand, and gaue me gude comfort. 

With thy counfell thow fall me weill conuoy, 
And efter this reffaue me to thy joy. 
O Lord, quhat euer in heuin ordand for me, 
Outher in eird, compair I not to the. 



90 • Go a \ for thy grace. 

Na thing am I, my body nor my hart : 
God is my ftrenth, and euer falbe my part. 
Perifhe fall thay, that fleis from the far ; 
Lofte fall thay be, that ocht to the prefar. 

To me, forfuith, I think it for the beft, 
To cleue to God, and on him put my traift, 
And fchaw the nobill warkis that He hes done, 
To quhome be gloir ringand in his throne. 

FINIS. 

Deus quis Jimilis erit tibi. Pfal. lxxxiij. 

GOD, for thy grace, thow keip no more filence: 
[Ceifs not, O God, nor hald thy peax no moir-J 
Poftpone it not, bot haift thy vengeance 
On hypocritis, humelie I the exhort; 
For thay rebellis with rage do refort, 
And thay quhilk at the haue mortall feid, 
Contrair thy micht hes lifted vp thair heid. 

And till oppres thy pepill do pretend, 
Under pretence and cloikit halynes : 

With fubtell flycht to flay vs thay intend ; 
Confiderat thay ar, baith mair and les, 
Contrair thy teitament, our hope & richteoufnes : 

Thay fay, thay fall vs rute from the ground, 

That na mentioun of vs fall mair be found. 

Thay now confpyre with cruell hart and fell, 

With ane confent, togidder in ane band : 
Quhilk neuer befoir culd gre amang thame fell, 

Stryuand 



God) for thy grace. 9 1 

Stryuand for ftait and hicht, in euerie land : 
Bot contrair the togidder ftife thay ftand, 
And fall lyke burris thay cleif baith ane and all, 
To hald, O God, thy word and vs in thrall. 

Ze Edomeitis, idoll, with thrinfald croune, 
The crop and rute of pryde and tyrannie ; 

Ze Ifmalitis, with fcarlat hat and gowne, 
Zour bludie boift na fyith can fatiffie \ 
Ze Moabitis, with hornis twa full hie, 

Outwart lyke fcheip, ze beir the beiflis mark, 

In wart lyke tykis, ze byte, bot can not bark. 

Of Agarins, quhat tung can tell the tryne, 
With hurklit hude ouir a weill nureift neck ? 

Jabell and Anion, als fat as ony fwyne, 

Quhilk can not do, bot drink, fmg, jouk, and bek ; 
The Amelekis, that lefingis weill can clek, 

The Paliftenis with dum doctouris of Tyre 

Quhilk dar nocht difpute, bot cryis, Fyre, fyre. 

Affiir, in harnes, is with thame euer moir. 
Companzeoun he is perpetual! 

To Lotis sonis, for to mantene thair gloir ; 

He wate nocht ellis, for his confcience is thrall 
To thame quhilk hes na hope celeftiall, 

Bot contrair God indurit hes thair hartis, 

Syne [fylie] Princes, blindly, tak thair partis. 

O God of gloir, refill: thair cruelnes, 

As thow fum tyme ouerthrew the Madionitis 

And Sicera, with his malicioufnes. 

And Jabene, with his bludie hypocritis. 



92 God, for thy grace. 

At Kyfon flude, as weill the ftorie dytis ; 
Thay perifchit at En dor throw thy micht, 
Syne mucke become, and fylth, for all thair hicht. 

Thair gouernouris and gydis, gif ficlike 
As Oreb, Seb, Seba, and Zelmanie. 

Thair finnis fhawis thay ar a bludie byke ; 
And zit thay wald, throw thair hypocrifie, 
Pofles the Kirk of God, throw tyrannie, 

And will cum to na Counfell Generall, 

For feir thay lofe thair pompe Pontificall. 

As quheill vnftabill, and caiFe befoir the wind, 
And as the wod confumit is with fyre : 

And as the flame burning quhair it can find 
The faggat, in the feild with grit impyre : 
Siclike perfew thame with thy greuous ire. 

Lat thy tempeft thair wraithfulnes reuenge, 

And lat thy ftorme thair pryde in purteth change. 

Confound thame, Lord, that they may feik thy 
Perturbe thair mindewith care continuall, [name, 

And let thame perifche, and cum till vtter fchame ; 
Lat thame knaw the for the God eternall, 
Allanerlie on the allone to call : 

And the obey abone all eirdlie thing, 

Maist michtieft, maift hieft in thy ring. 

FINIS. 



Q 



Qui habitat In Adiutorio. Pfal. lxxxxj. 
VHA on the Hieft will depend, 
And in his fecreit help will traift, 
Almichtie God fall him defend, 

And 



Quha on the Hieji will depend. 93 

And gyde him with his Haly Gaift. 
. Thairfoir with mynde rype and degeft, 
Thow fay to God, My trew releue, 

My hope, my God of michtis maift, 
Onlie in him I will beleue. 

He fall delyuer the at neid, 

And faue thy lyfe from peftilence ; 
His wingis ar thy weirlie weid, 

His pennes ar thy ftrang defence; 

And thow fall haue experience, 
That his trew promeis is thy fcheild ; 

His word of grit magnificence 
Sail be thy buklar and thy beild. 
Na wickit fpreit fall the affray, 

Nor the delude into the nicht; 
The fleand dartis be the day, 

To trubill the fall haue na micht ; 

Na fuddand chance of vncouth flicht, 
Sail cummer the, nor mak the red, 

Nor the perturbe in mark nor licht, 
Bot from all plague thow fall be fred. 

And thow fall fe at thy left hand, 

Ane thoufand haue ane fuddand fall ; 
And als thow fall fe ten thoufand 

At thy richt hand, quhilk perifche fall. 

Zit nocht to the fall cum at all : 
Bot thow fall with thine eine behald, 

Sinnaris put fra memorial!, 
With plagues grit and monyfald. 

O Lord, my hope and all my grace, 
Thow faue me for thy grit mercy ; 



94 Quha on the Hieft will depend. 

Thy gyrth is fet in ficker place, 
For he fall faue the michtfullie. 
And na mifchance fall cum to the, 

Nor maledie fall the moleft ; 
Na miffortoun thy hous fall fe, 

Bot all thingis wirk fall for the beft. 

His Angellis he fall giue ane charge, 

That thay on the fall take the cure, 
In all thy wayis to be ane targe, 

To keip the from mifauenture; 

And with thair handis thay fall the fure, 
That thow hurt nocht aganis ane craig 

Thy fute, bot fall preferue the fure 
From perrellis, panis, and from plaig. 

Thow fall ftrampe on the edderis ftrang, 

And tred on the cruell cocketrice ; 
The lyonnis craig thow fall ouer gang, 

The dreidfull dragoun thow fall chace. 

Sen thow me traiftis in all cafe, 
Sayis God, I fall the faif from fchame, 

And the defend in euerie place, 
For caufe thow knew my godly name. 

Quhen thow fall call, I fall the heir, 
And in diftres fall be with the. 

I fall reftoir the haill and feir, 
And als I fall the magnifie : 
With lang lyfe dotit fall thow be, 

And at the laft I fall the bring 
Quhair thow eternall gloir fall fe, 

For euer moir with me to ring. 

FINIS. 



In 



Quhenfra Egypt. 95 

In exitu IfraeL Pfal. cxiiii. 

QVHEN fra Egypt departit Ifraell, 
And Jacobis hous fra pepill harbour fell, 
To Juda, Lord, thow wes his Sauiour, 

And to Ifraell ane gyde and gouernour : 
Quhilk, quhen the fey had fene, for feir it fled, 

The flude Jordane zeid back, it was fa red. 
The mountainis muifit, & ran athort lyke ramis, 

The hillis danfit, and lichtly lap lyke lambis. 
Thow fwelland fey quhat muifit the to fie? 

To gang abak, Jordane, quhat ailit the? 
Quhat gart zow, montanis, lyke ramis ftert and 

And, ze hillis, lyke lambis loup and bend ? [ftend ? 
It was the Lordis feir that maid fie reird, 

And Jacobis God perturbit all the eird : 
For God turnit the craig in frefche reueir, 

The barrane bra in fontane water cleir. 

[_Non nobis Domine. Pfal. cxv.] 

Not vnto vs, not vnto vs, O Lord, 

Bot to thy fweit promeis, and to thy word, 
And to thy name be gloir allanerlie, 

Quhilk keipis thy promeis faithfullie. 
Thairfoir lat not our ennemeis blafpheme 

Thy Majeftie, for we may not fuftene 
To heir thame fay, Quhair is thy grit afcence, 

Thy godly help of thy magnificence ? 
Our God forfuith ringis in heuin full hie. 

And quhat him liftis, or lykis, workis he. 
Thir imagis of ftock, ftane, gilt with gold, 

Ar maid be men, and fyne for money fold: 



g6 Quhen fra Egypt. 

Thay haue a mouth can nouther fay nor ling ; 

Thair eine ar blind, and thay can fe na thing. 
Thay can nocht heir, thocht men do cry and zell. 

Thair noisthirlis can nouther fauer nor fmell. 
Thay haue handis, can nouther feill nor grope: 

Thair fundyit feit can nouther gang nor loupe : 
Thay can pronunce na voce furth of thair throtis : 

Thay ar ouergane with moufwobs & moitis. 
Quha makis thame, or traiftis in thair fupport, 

Ar lyke to thame in all maner of fort. 
Bot thow, Ifrael, in God put thy traift, 

Thy proteftour into thy myfter maift. 
Ze hous of Aaron, in God put zour beleif 

Zour defender, and na man can zow greif. 
All worfchippers of God, traift in his name, 

He is zour help and Sauiour allane. 
The Lord hes mynde and mercy vpon vs, 

Will fauour vs, and bring vs to his blis. 
Als feid the hous of Ifrael with his fude 

And to the hous of Aaron will be gude. 
Thow fall do weill to them that dreidis the, 

Baith zoung & auld, quhat ftait that euer thai be. 
God fall augment his pepill and incres, 

And eik thair fonnes and dochteris mair & les. 
He is the Lord that creat heuin 

And eird, with his creatures, in dayis feuin. 
The heuinnis ar the Lordis habitatioun; 

The eird he gaue to mannis propagatioun. 
The deid may not the loue among the laue, 

Nor thay that ar difcendit in thair graue ; 
Bot we that ar on liue fall loue and fing 

To God for euer, vnto our lyues ending. 

FINIS. Nifl 



Except the Lord. 97 

Ni r i quia Dominus. Pfal. cxxiiii. 

EXCEPT the Lord with vs had ftand, 
Say furth, Ifraell, vnfenzeitlie, 
Had not the Lord bene our warrand, 

Quhen men rais in our contrarie, 
Thay had vs all on Hue deuorit, 
With ire fa fcharpelie thay vs fchorit, 
Sa kendlit was thair crueltie. 

For lyke the welterand wallis brym, 
Thay had ouerquhelmit vs with micht ; 

Lyke burnis that in fpait faft rin, 

Thay had ouerthrawin vs with flicht. 

The bulrand ftremis of thair pryde, 

Had perifhit vs throw bak and fyde, 
And reft fra vs our lyfe full richt. 

Bot louing to the Lord, allone, 

That gaue vs nocht to be thair pray, 

To be rent with thair teith anone, 
Bot hes vs fred full well thame fray. 

Lyke to ane bird taine in ane net, 

The quhilk the foullar for her fet, 
Sa is our lyfe weill win away. 

The net is broken in pecis fmall, 
And we ar fauit fra thair fchame ; 

Our hope was ay and euer fall 
Be in the Lord, and in his Name : 

The quhilk hes creat heuin fa hie, 

And maid the eird fa meruellouflie, 
And all the ferleis of the fame. 

FINIS. 

G.j 



98 Fra deip^ Lord. 

De profundis. Pfal. cxxx. 

FRA deip, O Lord, I call to the, 
Lord, heir my inuocatioun, 
Thy eiris thow inclyne to me 
And heir my lamentatioun : 
For gif thow will our fin impute 
Till vs, O Lord, that we commit 
Quha may byde thy accufatioun ? 

Bot thow art mercyfull and kynde, 
And hes promittit in thy write, 

Them that repent with hart and mynde 
Of all thair fin to mak them quyte. 

Thocht I be full of finfulnes, 

Zit thow art full of faithfulnes, 

And thy promeis trew and perfyte. 

My hope is fteidfaft in the Lord, 
My faull euer on him traift, 

And my beleue is in thy word, 

And all thy promittis maift and leift. 

My faull on God waitis and is bent, 

As watcheman wald the nicht wer went, 
Bydand the day to tak him reft. 

Ifraell, in God put thy beleue, 

For he is full of gentilnes, 
Fredome, gudnes, and fall releue 
* All Ifraell of thair diftres : 
He fall delyuer Ifrael, 
And all thair finneris fall expell, 

And cleith them with his richteoufnes. 

FINIS. 



At the JRiuers of Babylon. 99 

Super jlumina Babylonis. Pfal. cxxxviii. 

AT the Riuers of Babylon, 
Quhair we dwelt in captiuitie, 
Quhen we rememberit on Sion, 

We weipit all full forrowfullie. 
On the fauch treis our harpis we hang, 
Quhen thay requyrit vs ane fang, 

That held vs in fie thirldome ; 
Thay bad vs fing fum pfalme or hymne, 
That we fum tyme fang Sion in ; 

To quhome we anfwerit full fone : 

How may we outher play or fing 

The pfalmes of our Lord fa fweit, 
Intill ane vncouth land or reigne? 

My richt hand firft fall that forleit, 
Or Jerufalem forzettin be ; 
Faft to my chaftis my toung fall be 

Clafpit, or that I it forzet. 
In my maift glaidnefs and my game, 
I fall remember Jerufalem, 

And all my hart vpon it fet. 

O Lord, think on the Edometis, 

How thay did at Jerufalem ; 
Thay bad deftroy with cruelteis, 

Put all to fack, and it ouirquhelme : 
Bot wrakkit fall thow be, Babylon ; 
And bliffit is that campion 

Sail ferue the as thow feruit vs : 
And he that fall thy barnis plaig, 
And rafche thair harnis aganis a craig, 
G.ij 



I oo / will the lone. 

Is happy and full glorious. 

FINIS. 

Exaltabo te. Pfal. cxliiii. 

I WILL the loue, my gracious Lord and King, 
Thankand thy Name, for euer will I fmg; 
All tyme I will rejoyce and fing to the, 

And pryfe thy name alfo perpetuallie. 
Greit is the Lord, and all laude dois excell, 

And his greit micht quha can difcryue or tell? 
Ane generation thy warkis dois declair 

Unto ane vther, and als thy greit powair, 
Thy gloir, thy greitnes, and thy magnificence, 

Thy nobill aftis digne of rememberance, 
I will furth fchaw thy meruellis fa greit, 

Thy magnitude I will it put in dyte. 
Memorie als of thy greit gentilnes, 

We fall ay fmg, and of thy richteoufnes. 
The Lord is meik, and mercyfull is he, 

Slaw to reuenge, and to forgiue reddie ; 
Courtes and kynde till all men is the Lord, 

In all his warkis [he is] mifericord ; 
And all thy warkis do thank the thairfoir, 

And all thy Sanctis to thy name gif gloir. 
The glorioufnes of thy Kingdome [they] teiche, 

And with thair toung thy greit power preiche 
Till all natiounis, thy magnitnde and micht, 

Of thy riche renoun the heuinly lufum licht. 
Thy royall realme, is realme of realmes all 

And thy impyre indure for euer fall. 
The Lord is help to thame that flyde and ftummer 

Them that troublit ar bringis out of cummer. 

All 



The hethin folk. ioi 

All mennis eine, O Lord, do the abyde, 

Thow feidis them in all tyme and tyde. 
Thow oppinnis furth thy hand ful graciouflie, 

And fatiffyis all flefhe aboundantlie. 
In all his wayis the Lord is juft and richt, 

In all his warkis is fanctifyit his micht, 
Till all call on the Lord, he is full neir, 

Sa that in trew beleif be thair prayer. 
He grantis thair defy re that dreidis him, 

And heiris thame, and forgeuis thair fin. 
All thame that luffis the Lord, he fauis thame, 

And he confoundis all fort of wickit men. 
The louing of the Lord my mouth fall found ; 

All louing men in to this warld fa round, 
Sail loue thy name perpetuall, and moir, 

Gif moir may be, regnand into thy gloir. 

FINIS. 

Deus venerunt gentes. Pfal. lxxvii. 

THE Hethin folk, Lord, in thy heritage, 
Hes cum in til exerce thair tyrannie, 
And hes defy lit euer, to this aige, 

The Tempill quhilk was dedicat to the, 
Quhilk haly was, and zit fall bliffit be. 
Jerufalem, as appillis, lay in heip : 
Bot thow, gude Lord, ryfe vp, and na mair fleip. 
Thair tyrannie aganis thy commandis, 

Richt cruellie exerfit in difpyte, 
Hes put to deid thy juft and trew feruandis, 
The foulis of the heuin with grit delyte 
Did eit thair flefhe, and beiitis fair culd byte 
G. iij 



102 The hethin folk. 

Thair bodyis, quhen thay lay in commoun ftreit: 
Jerufalem thairfoir richt fair did weip. 

Thair blude was fched, as riueirs of a well, 
That compaft hes Jerufalem about. 

Nane was that micht thair tyrannie expell, 
Aganis them it was fa ftrang and ftout : 
Thair bodyis, throw thair danger and greit dout, 

Unburyit was, voide of all fepulture, 

That nane to bury them wald tak the cure. 

Our nichtbouris, Lord, hes mockit vs with fcorne, 
And leuch at vs with greit illufioun : 

Bot thow, gude Lord, let vs not be forlorne; 
How lang fall we remaine in confufioun ? 
Will thow vs hald in thair abufioun? 

Vnto the end, fall thy wraith burne as fyre? 

Allace! gude Lord, remufe fra vs fie ire. 

Rather caft furth thy greif and cruelnes 

On wickit men, quhilk neuer will the knaw ; 

And realmes quhilk mifknaw thy godlynes, 
Not hauand E vnto thy godly law. 
For Jacob and his hous thae fair ouirthraw, 

And hes vs left all follit into cair, 

Beleuand for to bring vs to difpair. 

Auoyde, Lord, furth of thy remembrance, 
Our finfull lyfe that we haue fleipit in : 

Our will falbe thy mercy to aduance, 
For be the famin remittit is our fin : 
And as water [that] faft rinnis ouir ane lin, 

Dois not returne againe to the awin place, 

Sa 



The bet bin folk. 103 

Sa thow, gude Lord, put our fin from thy face. 

Help vs, gude Lord, our gyde and gouernour ; 
Delyuer vs for thy names faik glorious : 

Thow art our hope, our help, and Sauiour, 
And als our finnis maift dangerous 
Dois put away, for that thow promeift vs. 

Quhen we will turne to the with a trew hart, 

And fra our fmfull lyfe to the conuert. 

For, fchaw thow not thy mercy in diflres, 
Our Enemeis fall grow in tyrannie, 

And fall fay, God hes left vs mercyles : 
Bot thow, gude Lord, exerce thy crueltie 
Upon our fais, that fayis fchamefullie 

Quhair is thair God, in quhome thay did beleif ? 

He hes them left without help and releif. 

The vengeance of the blude of thy feruandis, 
Mot cum into thy prefence and thy ficht, 

The greting of thy pure that ar in bandis, 
In prifoun pynde, of day wantand the licht : 
The voyce of them that to the deid ar dicht, 

Heir now, gude Lord, and help them in thair neid, 

And be thair ltrenth at all tymes and remeid. 

Rewaird thy fais according to thair wrang, 
Seuinfald thair fin, gude Lord, mot puneift be, 

For thay haue blafphemit all to lang, 
Speikand contrair thy godly MajefHe: 
Bot we, thy pepill and fcheip, fall magnifie, 

And als exalt thy laude, thy name and gloir, 

And fall the loue now and for euer moir. 

FINIS. 

G. iiij 



104 Haue mercy on me, God of micht. 

Miferere mei Deus. Pfal. li. 

HAVE mercy on me, God of micht, 
Of mercy Lord and King : 
For thy mercy is fet full richt 

Aboue all eirdly thing. 
Thairfoir I cry baith day and nicht, 
And with my hart fall fing : 
To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Haue mercy on me, O gude Lord, 

Efter thy greit mercie : 
My finfull lyfe dois me remord, 

Quhilk fair hes greuit the : 
Bot thy greit grace hes me reftord, 

Throw Chrift. to libertie : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Et fecundum multitudinem. 
Gude Lord, I knaw my wickitnes, 

Contrair to thy command, 
Rebelland ay with cruelnes, 

And led me in ane band 
To Sathan, quha is mercyles : 

Zit, Lord, heir me cryand : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Quhat toung can tell the multitude, 

Lord, of thy greit mercie : 
Sen flnners hes thy celfitude 

Refiftit cruellie. 
Zit na finner will thow feclude 
That this will cry to the : 
To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Amplius laua me. 

Thow 



Hane mercy on me^ God of micht. 1 05 

Thow wufhe me, Lord, quhen I was borne, 

From all my wickitnes, 
Bot zit I did throw fm forlorne 

Of heuin the richteoufnes. 
Wefche me againe, and from thy home 

Delyuer me in fires : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

And fra my fin thow mak me clene, 

As thow maid Dauid King : 
With Peter, Paule, and Magdalene, 

Quha now dois with the reigne 
In heuinly joy, fair and amene; 

And I fall with thame fing : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Quoniam iniquitatem. 
Full weill I knaw my wickitnes, 

And fin contrarious : 
Blafphemit hes thy gentilnes, 

With fin maift dangerous, 
And hes me led in heuynes, 

Zit, O God, maift gracious : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

I grant my finfull lyfe did vfe 

In fenfualitie : 
Zit thow, gude Lord, will nane refufe, 

That will cum vnto the : 
Heirfoir I fchairply me accufe, 

Cryand for thy mercie : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Tibifoli peccauu 
Only to the I did offend, 



106 Haue mercy on me^ God of micht. 

And mekill euill hes done, 
Throw quhilk appeirandly defence 

To me is nane abone : 
Thus men will judge, thy juft vengeance 

Hes put me from thy throne : 

Zit to thy mercy with the will I go. 
Thocht thow, gude Lord, be judgeit thus, 

Full fals and wrangouflie : 
O God, fa gude and gracious, 

Let thair judgeing vincuft be, 
And fchaw thy mercy plenteous, 

Quhilk mot vs juftifie : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
\Ecce enim in iniquitatibusJ} 
Confauit into fin I am, 

My wickitnes thocht thow behald, 
Quhilk I contraftit of Adame, 

Sinnand richt monyfald. 
My mother als did eik the fame, 

And I to fin was fald : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Bot zit the Lord Omnipotent, 

My cairfull cace did cure, 
At font quhen I was impotent, 

Fragill, vaine, vyle, and pure-, 
Than helpit me that King potent 

In my mifauenture : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Ecce enim veritatem. 
Behald thow lufis treuth, gude Lord, 

Thow 



Haue mercy on me, God of micht. 107 

Thow art the veritie : 
This weill thy promeis can record, 

Quhair thow dois it fchaw to me, 
The hid thingis of thy godly word, 

That war vnfure to me : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Thow hecht to Abraham anone, 

Ifaack his eldeft fone : 
Thow promeift als that Salomone 

Suld bruik King Dauids throne. 
To finners als that callis the one 

Grace cummis from abone : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Afperges me. 
With ifope, Lord, thow fprinkill me, 

And then I fall be clene ; 
And clenar then maid fall I be 

Then euer fnaw hes bene, 
Zit of my clensen thy mercy 

The rute is euer fene : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

This ifope is humilitie, 

Richt law in till alienee ; 
The fnaw fa quhyte in all degre, 

Betakinnis innocence. 
For, and thir twa do gouerne me, 

I fall do nane offence : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Auditui meo dabis. 

Then joy and mirth thow fall me geue/ 



108 Haue mercy on me^ God of micht. 

Thy mercy quhen I heir ; 
My bandis law thow fall releue, 

And be my fcheild and fpeir : 
Thy fword alfo richt foir fall greue 

My enemies with feir : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

My hope and traift hes bene to lang 

In mennis fals fupplie, 
Quhairfoir I grant I haue done wrang, 

Not hopeand help of the ; 
Bot now with fteidfaft faith I gang 

Unto thy Majeftie: 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Aduerte faciem tuam. 
Fra my fmnes aduert thy face, 

My wickitnes expell; 
Sen I haue hoipit in thy grace 

Thow faue me fra the hell : 
Thy mercy is fet in ficker place, 

Na flnner can repell : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

The theif that hang on the richt hand, 

And fufferit with the deid : 
In the laft hour thy mercy fand, 

For fin the haill remeid. 
Siclyke, gude Lord, heir me cryand, 

And help me in my neid : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Cor mundum. 
Thow creat in me, O God, ane hart, 

Baith clene and innocent : 



And 



Haue mercy on me, God of micht. 109 

And let me not from the depart, 
My God omnipotent: 

Sen vnto the I fchaw my fmart 
Richt pure and indigent : 
To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Renew me with thy Haly Spreit, 

To help my febilnes : 
My teiris fall my cheikis weit, 

For my greit finfulnes : 
Bot thow, gude Lord, my comfort fweit, 

Expell my wickitnes : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Ne projicias me. 
O gude Lord, call: me not away 

From thy perfite prefence, 
Sen that I grant my fmnes ay 

Hes done the greit offence; 
And I fall prais baith nicht and day, 

Thy greit magnificence : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Tak not from me thy godly Spreit 

In my aduerfitie : 
For till my faull it is full fweit, 

Quhen fin befettis me ; 
And thow fall mak my faull full meit 

Unto thy Majeftie: 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Redde mihi. 
Giue me the blyithnes and the blis 

Of my fweit Sauiour : 
For throw his bitter deid I mis 



no Hane mercy on me^ God of mlcht. 

Of hell the dyntis dour, 
And in this mortall lyfe, he is 
My ftrang defence and tour : 
To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Conforme thy Spreit maift principal, 

Into me, throw thy grace : 
For fin richt lang held me in thrall, 

And put me from thy face : 
Zit vnto the, my Lord, I call, 

Into my heuie cafe : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Docebo iniquos. 
Then I fall teiche the wickit men 

Thy wayis juft and richt : 
And thay that did the lang mifken, 

Sail knaw the God of micht. 
Quhen thay fall ryfe furth of the den 

Of fin, and cum to licht : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

The finfull then to the reuart, 

Sail into gudlie haift, 
And rew thair finnes with thair hart, 

And thair auld lyfe deteft : 
And to them, Lord, thow fall conuart, 

Quhen they thy mercy taift : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Libera me. 
Delyuer me from blude fchedding, 

For blude betakinnis fin : 
For punifhment I ferue conding, * 

Zit efter the I rin : 

Grant 



Haue mercy on me, God of micht. 1 1 1 

Grant me that I may with the r eigne, 
And at thy port get in : 
To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Than fall my toung thy richteoufnes 

Extoll and magnifie, 
Quhen gane is my greit finfulnes, 

And greit iniquitie. 
God, for thy grace and gentilnes, 

Grant me thy greit mercie : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

\_Domine libera mea.~] 
My lippis, Lord, then loufe thow fall, 

Quhilk clofit lang haue bene ; 
From thy louing fair bound in thrall, 

Brekand thy fweit biddene ; 
And keip me from ane fuddand fall, 

For greit paine I fuftene : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

And then my mouth fall do furthfchaw 

Thy louing glorious : 
And I fall caus all finners knaw 

Thy micht, fa meruellous ; 
And fra thine furth fall keip thy law, 

Quhilk is fa precious : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Quoniamjt voluijfes. 
Gif the had plefit facrifice, 

I fuld them ofFerit the : 
Bot thow will not fie auarice, 

For thow art wonder fre ; 
And geuis vs thy benefites, 



112 Haue mercy on me, God of micht. 

Throw Chriftis blude frelie : 
To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Brint facrifice is na delyte, 

Unto thy Majeftie: 
Thow curis nocht of it ane myte, 

For fin to fatiffie ; 
For only Chrift did mak vs quyte 

Of all ennormitie : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Sacrijlcium Deo. 
Ane facrifice to the plefand, 

Is ane fweit humbill hart, 
Unto the quhilk, I vnderftand, 

Thow dois the haill conuart; 
Thairfoir, gude Lord, let thy command 

Na way from me depart: 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Ane contrite hart do not difpife, 

God, for thy greit mercie : 
Sen for thy grace fa oft it cryis 

For fuccour and fupplie : 
And it fall thank ane thoufand fyfe 

Thy godly Majeftie : 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 
Benigne fac Domine. 
To Sion, Lord, be gude againe, 

Efter thy godly will ; 
And let thy louing thair remaine, 

Thy promeis to fulfill : 
For Mont Sion, with greit difdaine, 

In thrall is hiddertill : 

To thy 



Haue mercy on me^ God of micht. 1 13 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Jerufalem did get ane fall, 

Hir wallis war maid full law ; 
For fcho mifkennit the God of all, 

And day lie brak his law ; 
Bot thow fall put hir out of thrall. 

Quhen fcho hir God dois knaw. 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Tunc acceptabis. 
Then facrifice thow fall accept, 

Of treuth and richteoufnes, 
Conforming to thy trew precept, 

And to they gentilnes : 
For na man then fall thow except 

Into thair neid and ftres. 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

Then calfis and brint facrifice 

Thy altar fall repleit, 
Then greitar gloir and benefice, 

Thow fall mak for vs meit ; 
Quhair, day and nicht, we fall not ceis 

Ay fmgand Sanctus fweit. 

To thy mercy with the will I go. 

FINIS. 

Beati omnes qui timent. Pfal. cxxviii. 

BLISSIT ar thay that fit in Goddis dreid, 
And liue in his commandement alway : 
Of thy hand labour thow fall eit, be not feird, 
And fair weill thow fall euerie day. 
H.j 



1 1 4 BliJJit are tbay. 

Thy wyfe fall be as ane fruitefull wyne, 
And fall weill ay incres thy hous : 

Thy barnis all fall to vertew inclyne, 
As fair oliue treis that be plenteous. 

Quhen euer thow fittis at thy tabill, 
Thy barnis fall ftand round about the ; 

Sa will the Lord mak the abill, 
And fill thy hous with honeftie. 

Sa fall God him euer blis, 

That dreidis him ay in his leuing ; 

Alway fall he be ficker of this, 
That is neidfull to want na thing. 

Fra Sion fall the Lord blis the, 

That thow may fe to thy greit weill, 

How profperous Jerufalem fall be, 
And thow reflauit to greit heill. 

Ane profitabill lyfe fall be giuen the, 
And God alway fall be thy freind : 

Thy childeris children, thow fall fe, 
And peace in Ifraell fall thow find. 

FINIS. 

F*OR lufe of one I mak my mone, 
Richt fecreitlie, 
To Chrift Jefu, that Lord maift trew 

For his mercy ; 
Befeiking that fre, grant grace to me, 

Or I be gone ; 
And to redres my heuines, 
And all my mone : 






For lufe of one. 1 15 

Or I be deid, fend me remeid, 

For thy pietie, 
O Lord, quhilk wrocht all thing of nocht, 

Grant me thy mercy. 
We the befeik, with wordis meik, 

O mercyfull Lord, 
Thy humill word, with ane accord, 

Let be reftord 
To finneris all, quhen they do call 

For thy mercy. 
For quhilk on Rude thow fched thy blude 

Richt plenteouflie: 
San£t Johne did tell, thow heryit hell, 

And fchew mercie ; 
Ane thoufand fcoir thow did refloir 

To thy glorie. 
O King of peace, in quhome is grace 

Haboundantlie : 
My miferabill life, and finnis ryfe, 

Thow forgeue me. 
Sen be na richt, I haue na micht, 

Me to defend 
Fra hellis pane, bot giue thow plane 

Me fuccour fend. 
Be thy fweit word to me, O Lord, 

In my diftres : 
Ane thoufand fyfe, than fall I pryfe 

Thy halines : 
Lat vs now fing, and loue the King, 

For his greit mercie: 
And his greit grace, fchawin vs the fpace, 
H.ij 



1 1 6 Quho is at my windo ? 

Sa plenteouflie. 
With ane accord, let vs thank the Lord 

Richt hartfullie : 
With hart and fpreit, fing pfalmes fweit, 

Richt plefandlie. 
As brether deir, in this lyfe heir, 

We may indure : 
Baith nicht and day, to Chrift lat vs pray, 

To mak vs fure. 

FINIS. 

QVHO is at my windo ? quho, quho ? 
Go from my windo, go, go ! 
Quho callis thair, fa lyke a ftrangair ? 
Go from my windo, go ! 

Lord, I am heir, ane wretchit mortall, 
That for thy mercy dois cry and call 
Unto the, my Lord celeftiall. 
Se quho is at my windo, quho. 

How dar thow for mercy cry, 
Sa lang in fin as thow dois ly ? 
Mercy to haue thow art not worthy. 
Go from my windo, go. 

My gylt, gude Lord, I will refufe, 
And the wickit lyfe that I did vfe, 
Traiftand thy mercy fall be myne excufe. 
Se quho is at my windo, quho. 

To be excufit, thow wald richt faine, 
In fpending of thy lyfe in vaine, 
Hauing my Gofpell in greit difdaine. 

Go 



Quho is at my wlndo ? 117 

Go from my windo, go. 

Lord, I haue offendit the, 
Excufe thairof thair can nane be : 

1 haue followit them that fa teichit me. 

Se quho is at my windo, quho. 

Nay, I call the nocht fra my dure, I wis, 
Lyke any ftranger that unknawin is ; 
Thow art my brother, and my will it is, 
That in at my dure thow go. 

With richt humbill hart, Lord, the I pray, 
Thy comfort and grace obteine I may : 
Schaw me the paith and reddy way 
In at thy dure for to go. 

I am cheif gyde to riche and pure, 
Schawand the paithway richt to my dure, 
I am thair comfort in euerie hour, 
That in at my dure will go. 

Bot thay that walk ane other way, 
As mony did teiche from day to day*, 
Thay wer indurit, my GofpeU. did fay, 
And far from my dure fall go. 

O gracious Lord, comfort of all wicht, 
For thy greit power, and cheif excellent micht, 
Sen thow art gyde, and verray licht, 
In at thy dure let me go. 

Man, I gaue the nocht fre will, 
H. iij 



1 1 8 Quho is at my windo ? 

That thow fuld my Gofpell fpill ; 
Thow dois na gude bot euer ill ; 

Thairfoir from my dure that thow go. 

That will, allace, hes my begylit, 
That will fa fair hes me defylit, 
That will thy prefence hes me exilit ; 
Zit at thy dure lat me go. 

To blame that will, thow dois not richt, 
I gaue the refToun, quhairby thow micht 
Haue knawin the day by the dark nicht, 
In at my dure for to go. 

Lord, I pray the with all my hart, 
Of thy greit mercy remufe my fmart, 
Lat ane drop of thy grace be my part, 
That in at thy dure I may go. 

I haue fpokin in my Scripture, 
I will the deid of na creature ; 
Quha will alk mercy, fall be fure 
And in at my dure for to go. 

O Lord, quhais mercy is but end, 

Quhairin ocht to the I did offend, 

Grant me fpace my lyfe to amend, 

That in at thy dure I may go. 

Remember thy fin, and als thy fmart, 
And als for the quhat was my part : 
Remember the fpeir that thirlit my hart, 
And in at my dure thow fall go. 

And 



Quho is at my windo P 119 

And it wer zit till do againe, 
Rather or thow fuld ly in paine, 
I wald fuffer mair in certaine, 

That in at my dure thow micht go. 

I afk na thing of the thairfoir, 
Bot lufe for lufe, to lay in ftoir : 
Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir, 
And in at my dure thow fall go. 

O gracious Lord celeftiall, 
As thow art Lord and King eternall, 
Grant vs grace, that we may enter all, 
And in at thy dure for to go. 

Quho is at my windo ? quho ? 
Go from my windo, go! 
Cry na mair thair, lyke ane ftr anger, 
Bot in at my dure thow go. 

FINIS. 

Deus mifereatur. Pfal. lxvii. 

OGOD, be mercyfull to vs, 
And fend to vs thy bliffing ; 
Thy face fchaw vs fa glorious, 

And be euer to us huffing; 
That men on eird may knaw thy way, 

Thy fauing heill and richteoufnes, 
That they be nocht led nicht nor day 
Fra thy preceptis, and trew juftice, 
To feik faluatioun quhair nane is. 
H. iiij 



120 God, be mercy full to vs. 

Thairfoir the pepill micht magnifie : 

O God, all folke, and honour thy Name; 
Let all the pepill rejoyce glaidlie, 

Becaus thow dois richt without blame : 
The pepill dois thow judge trewlie, 

And ordouris euerie Natioun : 
Thow hes declarit the Eird juftlie 

Euer fen the firft Creatioun, 

Throw thy godlie prouifioun. 

The pepill mode fpred thy name fa hie, 
All pepill (O God) mon giue the honour; 

The eird alfwa richt pienteouflie, 
Mot incres euer moir and moir ; 

And God, quhilk is our God ouer all, 
Mot do vs gude and plefour. 

God mot blis vs greit and fmall, 
And all the warld him honour 
Alway, for his micht and power. 

FINIS. 

IN till ane mirthfull Maij morning 
Quhen Phebus did vp fpring, 
Walkand I lay, in ane gar ding gay, 

Thinkand on Chrift fa fre : 
Quhilk meiklie for mankynde 
Tholit to be pynde 

On croce cruellie. La. La. 

And how he hes me wrocht, 
And formit me of nocht, 
Lyke his picture, the Lord maift fure, 
In eird he hes me fupport : 

Syne 



In till ane mirthfull Maij morning. 1 2 1 

Syne me to hald in richt, 
Hes fend ane Angell bricht, 

To be my comfort. La. La. 

O Sathan fals, vntrew, 
Quhilk cruelly dois per few, 
With violence, and greit defence, 

In eird to tempt mankynde, 
With cruell Sinnis Seuin, 
The faull to gyde from heuin, 

To hell for to be pynde. La. La. 

Thairfoir (O gracious Lord) 

Quhilk mercy hes reftoird, 

That fmfull wicht deftroy his micht, 

Quhilk wirkis aganis thy gloir : 
And fend thy gracious word, 
Thy pepill may be reftoird 

We pray the thairfoir. La. Lay. 

FINIS. 

ALL my hart, ay this is my fang, 
With dowbill mirth and joy amang; 
Sa blyith as byrd my God to fang: 
Chrift hes my hart ay. 

Quha hes my hart bot heuinnis King : 
Quhilk caufis me for joy to fmg, 
Quhome that I lufe atouir all thing : 
Chrift hes my hart ay. 

He is fair, fober, and bening, 
Sweit, meik, and gentill in all thing, 



12 2 Chrift hes my hart ay. 

Maift worthieft to haue louing: 
Chrift hes my hart ay. 

For vs that bliffit barne was borne ; 
For vs he was baith rent and torne ; 
For vs he was crownit with thorne : 
Chrift hes my hart ay. 

For vs he fched his precious blude ; 
For vs he was naillit on the rude ; 
For vs he in mony battell ftude : 
Chrift has my hart ay. 

Nixt him, to lufe his Mother fair, 
With fteidfaft hart, for euer mair ; 
Scho bure the byrth, fred vs from cair : 
Chrift hes my hart ay. 

We pray to God that fittis abufe, 
Fra him let neuer our hartis remufe, 
Nor for na fuddand warldly lufe : 
Chrift hes my hart ay. 

He is the lufe of luifaris all, 
He cummis on him quhen we call ; 
For vs he drank the bitter gall : 
Chrift hes my hart ay. 

FINIS. 

MY Lufe murnis for me, for me ; 
My lufe that murnis for me ; 
I am vnkynde, hes nocht in mynde, 
My Lufe that murnis for me, 

Quha 



My Lufe mum is for me. 123 

Quha is my lufe, bot God abufe, 
Quhilk all this warld hes wrocht ? 

The King of blis, my lufe he is, 
Full deir he hes me bocht. 

His precious blude he fched on rude, 

That was to mak vs fre : 
This fall I preif, be Goddis leif, 

That fair my lufe murnis for me. 

This my lufe come from abufe, 

And borne was of ane mayd ; 
For till fulfill his Fatheris will, 

Till fill furth that he faid. 

Man haue in mynde, and thow be kynde, 

Thy lufe that murnis for the, 
How he on rude did fched his blude, 

From Sathan to mak the fre. 

FINIS. 

TELL me now, and in quhat wife, 
How that I fuld my lufe forgo ; 
Baith day and nicht ane thoufand fyfe 
Thir tyrannis walkins me with wo. 

At midnicht mirk thay will vs tak, 

And into prifone will vs fling: 
Thair mon we ly, quhill we forfaik 

The name of God, quhilk is our king. 

Then faggottis mon we burne or beir, 
Or to the deid thay will vs bring : 



1 24 Tell me now. 

It dois them gude to do vs deir, 
And to confufioun vs doun thring. 

Allace, zour Grace hes done greit wrang, 

To fuffer tyrannis in fie fort, 
Daylie zour leigis till ouergang 

That dois bot Chriftis word report. 

Chrift, fen zour Grace wald cry ane cry, 
Out throw the realme of all Scotland, 

The man that wald liue faithfullie, 
Ze wald him fuffer in the land. 

Then fuld we outher do or die, 
Or ellis our lyfe we fuld lay for it ; 

And euer to liue in cheritie, 

Be Chrift Jefus, quhilk is our Lord. 

Pluk up zour hartis, and mak zow bowne, 
For Chriftis word fe ze ft and for it : 

Thair crueltie it fall cum downe 

Be Chrift Jefus, quhilk is our Lord. 

Thow King of gloir, grant vs thy blis, 
Send vs fupport and comforting, 

Aganis our fais, that biffie is, 

That fchaipis till ftroy baith auld and zing. 

In hour of deid grant vs thy ftrenth, 
Glaidly to thoill thair crueltie, 

And that we may with the at lenth, 
Reffaue thy joy eternallie. 

FINIS. 

Magnificat 



My Saul/ dots magnifie the Lord. 1 25 

Magnificat anima mea. 

MY Saule dois magnifie the Lord, 
My fpreit rejoycis gretumlie 
In God my Sauiour, and in his word ; 
For he hes fene the law degre 
Of me his hand-madin, trewlie: 
Behald now, efter this day, 

All generations fall fpeik of me, 
And call me bliffit alway. 

For he that is onlie of micht, 

Hes done greit thingis vnto me, 
And haly is his name be richt : 

As for his endles mercie, 

It duris perpetuallie, 
In euerie generatioun, 

And thay that dreidis him vnfenzeitlie, 
Without diffimulatioun. 

He fchawis ftrenth with his arme potent, 
Declaris him felf to be of power : 

He fcatteris all men of proude intent, 
Euin for thair wickit behauiour, 
Quhilk reignes in thair hartis euerie hour : 

He puttis down the michtie 

From thair hie eftait and greit honour, 

Extolling them of law degre. 

The houngrie feidis he with gude, 
And lettis the riche ga emptie : 

Quhen his awin pepill wantis fude 
It thinkis vpon his greit mercie, 



126 Chrift, thow art the licht. 

And helpis his feruandis ane and all, 
Euin Ifrael he hes promyfit, 

And to our fatheris perpetuall, 
Abraham and to his feid. 

FINIS. 

Ghrijle, qui luxes. 

CHRIST, thow art the licht, bot & the day, 
The mirknes of nicht thow puttis away : 
We knaw thow art the verray licht, 
That fchynis to vs baith day and nicht, 

O haly Lord, we the befeik, 
This nicht vs to defend and keip, 
Thy reft and peace be with us all, 
Lat neuer na euill thing vs befall. 

Na heuy fleip, nor deidly fin, 
Lat not our ennemeis vs ouercum, 
Nor zit our flefhe giue na confent : 
Grant vs our faultis for to repent. 

Lord, lat our eine fum fleip do take, 
Our hartis all tyme on the may waik, 
Thy richt hand keip us from all euill, 
Thy awin feruand that luffis the weill, 

Our defender, to the we pray, 
All ire and malice thow put vs fra, 
Thy feruandis gouerne in the fteid, 
For quhais ranfoun thow did fair bleid. 

Haue mynde on vs, thow Lord Jefu, 

In this 



Chrijl is the onlie Sone of God. 127 

In this fals warld that is vntrew ; 
Thow art defendar of our faule, 
Lord, heir vs quhen we on the call. 

Gloir be to God, Father of micht, 
And to Chrift Jefus, his Sone fa bricht : 
The Haly Gaift that is fa fair, 
Keep vs this nicht, and euer mair. 

FINIS. 

CHRIST is the onlie Sone of God, 
The Father eternall: 
We haue in Jeffe found the rod, 

God and man naturall. 
He is the morning Star ; 
His bemis fend he hes out far, 
Bezond vther fternis all. 

He was for vs ane man borne, 

In the laft part of tyme ; 
Zit keipit fcho hir maidinheid vnforlorne 

His Mother that bure him, fyne 
He hes hellis zettis brokin, 
And heuin he hes maid oppin, 

Bringand vs life againe. 

Thow onlie Maker of all thing, 

Thow euerlaftand licht, 
From end to end all rewling, 

Be thy awin godly micht, 
Turne thow our hartis vnto the, 
And lichtin thame with the veritie, 

That ar far from the richt. 



I 28 Chrift Jefus is ane A per C. 

Let vs incres in lufe of the, 

And in knawledge alfo, 
That we, beleuing fteidfaftlie, 

May in fpreit feme the fo ; 
That we in hartis may fauour 
Thy mercy, and thy fauour, 

And traift efter no mo. 

Awalk vs (Lord) we pray the, 

The Haly Spreit vs geue, 
Quhilk may our auld man mortifie, 

That our new man may leue : 
Sa will we alway thank the, 
That fhawis vs fa greit mercy, 

And our finnis dois forgeue. 

FINIS. 

CHRIST Jefus is ane A per C, 
And peirles Prince of all mercy ; 
For he fra me my fin hes tane, 
And is my Sauiour allane. 

To faue bot he none is, nor fall, 
I out tak nane greit nor fmall ; 
To him is na comparifoun : 
He is my Sauiour allone. 

I fall him lufe with fteidfaft hart, 
And for na caufe fra him depart : 
Bot him to ferue, I me difpone, 
As to my Sauiour allone. 

Sa on his grace I will depend, 
Quhill Lachefis draw my life till end ; 

Syne 



Allone I weip in greit diflres . 129 

Syne leue my faule, quhen I am gone, 
To regne with thrinfald God in one. 

FINIS. 

ALLONE I weip in greit diflres, 
We ar exilit remediles, 
And wait nocht quhy, 
Fra Goddis word, allace, allace, 

Uncourteflie. 
Quhair that we fuld glaidlie behauld, 
Our Sauiour, baith zoung and auld, 

Sa plefandlie; 
Now ar we baneift monyfauld, 

Uncourteflie. 
Thay may our body fra the bind, 
Sa can thay not our hartis and mynde 

Fixit on the, 
Howbeit we be with dolour pynde 

Maift cruellie. 
O Antichrift, we may the call, 
From Goddis word wald gar vs fall; 

Thy crueltie 
Wald baneis vs from plefouris all, 

Uncourteflie. 
Indurit ignorance hes flaine, 
Thy hart and put vs to greit paine ; 

Quhat remedie? 
Sen we are baneift from Chrifl allaine, 

Uncourteflie. 

FINIS. 

THE Lord fayis, I will fchaw 
My will, and eik my mynde, 

i.j 



130 The Lord fay is ^ I will f chaw. 

Mark weill my Scripture, and my Law, 

Quhairin that thow fall find, 
That with my faith I mak ane vow 

And knittis it with ane knot ; 
The treuth is fa, I lufe the now ; 

Be war I hait the not. 

It was my Fatheris will 

That I fuld tak the cure, 
For to cum downe in eirth the till, 

And tak thy vyle nature. 
To cleith my precious body pure, 

Sa clene from fin and fpot, 
For lufe of the I mak the fure ; 

Be war I hait the not. 

I fand the loift from blis, 

Throw Adamis fin and pleid : 
And quha fa euer wrocht the mis, 

Was nane culd find remeid : 
Quhill I my felf did chofe the deid, 

To faue the from the pot. 
I lufe the weill, ferue me in dreid -, 

Be war I hait the not. 

For all the greuous forrowis foir 

I fufTerit, and paine, 
To my rewaird I afk no moir, 

Bot thy trew lufe againe. 
I am ane hufband-man but weir, 

Quhilk labouris for my lot. 
I lufe the weill, I mak the fure ; 

Be war I hait the not. 

My zock 



The Lord fayis^ I willfcbaw. 1 3 1 

My zock is wounder fweit, 

And als my burding licht ; 
All that be with my grace repleit : 

Sail go the way full richt. 
I am the rute of all mercy, 

Quhilk neuer fall faid nor rot; 
Sen nane the luffit fa weill as I, 

Be war I hait the not. 

All ze that fair dois thrift, 

Throuch brukilnes of the flefche, 
Cum vnto me quhen that ze lift, 

I fall zour faulis refrefche. 
Call vpon me, and I fall heir, 

And faif the from the fchot : 
I lufe the weill, I coft the deir { 

Be war I hait the not, 

Attend, and tak gude keip, 

To thame that cumis to the 
Into the habite of ane fcheip, 

With fubtell fermonis Hie : 
For doubtles thay war inwartlie 

Fals wolfis vnder cot: 
Renunce thair la wis, and cum to me, 

Trewlie I hait the not. 

Na man fall cum to me, 

Except my Father him draw ; 
Nor fe my Father in heuin fa hie, 

Bot be me and my law. 
Quhairfoir, O man, prent in thy mynde, 

Thir wordis, and this knot, 
Lij 



132 Greuous is my forrow. 

And wirk as my word dois the bind : 
Be war I hait the not. 

FINIS. 

GREVOVS is my forrow, 
Baith euin and morrow ; 
Unto my felf allone, 
Thus Chrift makis his mone : 
Saying, Vnkyndnes hes killit me, 

And put me to this paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 
For I wald nocht refraine. 

My Father was fa mouit, 
And with mankynde fa greuit; 
Man was fa wylde and nyfe, 
And rageing in all vyce, 
That diftroyit he fuld be : 

Than for man I tuke paine ; 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

For I wald nocht refraine. 

Than forthwith, for his faik, 
I did his nature tak, 
Within ane Virgin pure, 
As fchawis my Scripture, 
Quhais vnkyndnes dois kill me, 

And puttis me to greit paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

For I wald nocht refraine. 

Quhen I was bot ane chylde, 
With my Mother, maift mylde, 



The 



Greuons is my for row. 133 

The Jewis did me difpyfe, 
And euer mair furmyfe, 
With vnkyndenes to kill me, 

And put me to greit paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

For I wald nocht refraine. 

Thay lykit nocht my leuing, 
Praying, fading, not repreuing, 
For quhen that they did fleip, 
Than did I fich and weip, 
That vnkyndnes fuld keill me, 

And put me to greit paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

Zit wald I nocht refraine. 

Than at the laft thay tuke me, 
And all my freindis forfuke me, 
Bot my deir Mother allone, 
And my coufing Sanft Johne, 
Till vnkyndnes had killit me, 

And put me to this paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

Zit wald I nocht refraine. 

Firft I was betin lang, 
With fcurgis fcharp and ftrang, 
And as ane fule mockit, 
Euill totcheit and rockit 
Till vnkyndnes fuld keill me, 

And put me to that paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

I thocht nocht to refraine. 
Liij 



134 Greuous is my farrow. 

Than to ane croce on hie, 
Thay nalit my bodie, 
And fyne between twa theifis, 
They did me mony greuis, 
Till vnkyndnes did keill me, 

And put me to greit paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

I thocht nocht to refraine. 

And quhen I waxit dry, 
And for drink lang did cry, 
My comfort was bot fmall, 
To fup the bitter gall, 
With vnkyndnes thay feruit me, 

And put me to greit paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

Zit wald I nocht refraine. 

Thus had I neuer reft, 
Bot with panis oppreft; 
And with ane fpeir full fcharp, 
Thay peirfit my tender hart, 
Sa that vnkindnes killit me, 

And put me to greit paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

For I wald nocht refraine. 

For this my greit kyndnes, 
Me think, of richt doutles, 
Mannis faule fuld lufe me beft, 
Sen it my deid hes dreft ; 
Quhais vnkyndnes hes killit me, 
And put me to this paine : 



Allace, 



Greuous is my for row. 135 

Allace, quhat remedie, 
Zit wald I nocht refraine. 

Gif ony ane be heir, 

That will buy lufe fa deir, 

Nocht with filuer nor gold, 

Bot with my blude, beholde 

Thy vnkyndnes, man, has flaine me, 

And put me to this paine : 
Behald this pieteous body 

Thus mofte vnkyndlie flaine. 

O man, quhome I creat, 

Quhy art thow fa ingrait? 

Seing how I am fpilt, 

All onlie for thy gilt ; . 

And with vnkyndnes dois kill me, 

And put me to this paine : 
Zit all thy vylanie 

Can nocht mak me refraine. 

Quhat forrow culd be moir, 
Than to furTer fo foir, 
Of them that knew my la wis , 
And wift I gaue na caus, 
Unkyndely thus to kill me, 

And put me to fie paine : 
Allace, quhat remedie, 

Zit wald I nocht refraine. 

Father, forgiue Cayphas, 
Pylate, Anna, and Judas ; 
Pardone all Jurie 

I. iiij 



1 36 Greuous is my for row. 

That cryit Crucifige: * 

Thocht vnkyndelie thay flew me, 

And put me to this paine : 
Zit thair was na remedie, 

For I will nocht refraine. 

My faull in thy handis fre, 
My laft will fall be: 

Father, I commit 
Into thy handis my fpreit. 
Thocht vnkyndely I die, 

And am put to greit paine, 
Zit for mannis remedie, 
I fall ryfe vp againe. 

1 leue in Teftament, 
My body in Sacrament, 
For mannis faull to fupport, 
And be his cheif comfort. 

Thocht man vnkyndely haue left me, 
And flew me with greit paine : 

Thair is na remedie, 

My hart will nocht refraine. 

Go, hart, I the bequyeth 

To hir that was my deith, 

Mannis faul is fcho trewlie, 

My hart hir hart fall be : 

Thocht fcho maift vnkyndely flew me, 

And put me to greit paine : 
Zit thair is na remedie, 

My hart will nocht refraine. 

The 



Greuous is my forrow. 137 

The laudes of the Lord trewlie 

Ze may fing mirrylie, 

For all our faulis health, 

In euerlafling wealth : 

Thocht vnkyndelie ze flew my bodie, 

And did put me to paine; 
Ze may perfaue day lie, 

My lufe dois nocht refraine. 

My tumbe is frefhe and new, 
In fauing I was trew j 
To put mankynde fra dout, 
Thair fall be written about, 
The Jewis King heir dois ly, 

Quhome vnkyndenes hes flaine-, 
And focht na remedie, 

For he wald nocht refraine. 

Father Imperial!, 

1 pray the in fpeciall, 

My deith mannis faull forgiue, 
In heuin with me to liue : 
Thocht vnkyndely fcho killit me, 

I wald fcho had na paine ; 
For I had rather die 

For hir faik anis againe. 

Ane gentill Admonitioun of Chrift. 

ALL pepill leirne of me 
Gentilnes and pietie : 
Remember my fober bodie, 
Sa woundit and bludie : 
Kill na man vnkyndelie, 



138 Johne ^ cum kis me now. 

With fclander nor with paine : 
Amend your faultis daylie, 
And from all vice refraine. 

FINIS. 

JOHNE, cum kis me now, 
Johne, cum kis me now ; 
Johne, cum kis me by and by 

And mak no moir adow. 
The Lord thy God I am, 

That Johne dois the call ; 
Johne reprefentit man, 

Be grace celeftiall. 
For Johne, Goddis grace it is, 

(Quha lift till expone the fame) : 
Och Johne, thow did amis, 

Quhen that thow loift this name. 
Heuin and eirth of nocht, 

I maid them for thy faik : 
For euer moir I thocht 

To my lykenes the mak. 
In Paradice I plantit the, 

And made the Lord of all ; 
My creatures not forbidding the 

Na thing bot ane of all. 
Thus wald thow not obey, 

Nor zit follow to my will; 
Bot did caft thy felf away, 

And thy pofteritie fpill. 
My juftice condempnit the 

To euerlafting paine, 

Man 



Jobne, cum kis me now. 139 

Man culd find na remedie, 

To buy man fre againe. 
O pure lyfe, and meir mercy, 

Myne awin Sone downe I fend, 
God become man for the, 

For thy fin his lyfe did fpend. 
Thy attonement and peace to mak, 

He fched his blude maift halie, 
Suffering deith for thy faik, 

Quhat culd he do moir for the ? 
It plefit Chrift, without defart, 

For his enemie to die, 
Suffering a fpeir to peirs his hart, 

The caus was thy folie. 
Beleue this, repent thy fin, 

His deith haue euer in mynde, 
Remiffioun of fin lyis only thairin, 

To thy Lord be neuer vnkynde. 
Quhen he afcendit [he] left him behind 

His word to reid and heir, 
Quhen Antichrift wald the blind, 

That thow fuld giue him na eir. 
Bot quhen Sathan was lowfit out of hell, 

And had fet man in my place, 
All that he did thow thocht it weill, 

At him thow focht for grace. 
Na thing regarding how of me, 

All thing had thair creatioun ; 
Nor zit quhat Chrift fufferit for the, 

To redeme the from dampnatioun. 
Bot the abhominatioun of defolatioun 



140 Johne, cum kh me now. 



Thow fettis in the haly place, 
Be Antichriftis fals perfwafioun 

My Sonnis paffioun to deface. 
Quhairfoir my juftice mouit me 

My word fra the reftraine, 
And to thy luft to giue vp the, 

To traift in thingis vaine. 
In mannis warkis then did thow traift, 

Seiking helth thow wift not quhair, 
At thy deith thow did miftraift 

And fa fell in difpair. 
Quhen I did draw ony to me, 

My Gofpell to profes, 
Thow did them flay richt cruellie, 

Thinkand to do me feruice. 
Thy feruice fall rewardit be 

With euerlafting paine, 
And all that hait my word and me, 

Except thay do abftene. 
Thus, quhen thow was in dangerous cafe, 

Reddy to fink in hell, 
Of my mercy and fpeciall grace, 

I fend the my Gofpell. 
My Prophetis call, my preicheouris cry, 

Johne, cum kis me now, 
Johne, cum kis me by and by, 

And mak no moir adow. 
Ane Spreit I am incorporate, 

Na mortall eye can me fe, 
Zit my word dois intimate, 

Johne, how thow mufl kis me. 

Repent 






Lord^ let me neuer be confoundit. 141 

Repent thy fin vnfenzeitlie-, 

Beleue my promeis in ChrifHs deith ; 
This kis of faith will juftifie the, 

(As my Scripture plainely faith.) 
Mak na delay, cum by and by, 

Quhen that I do the call, 
Left deith do ftryke the fuddanelie, 

And fa cum nocht at all. 
Gif thow cum nocht quhill thow hes fpace, 

Bot my Gofpell dois contempne, 
I will tak from the my grace, 

And my word will the condempne. 
Of all that cum I will none reject, 

Na creature greit nor fmall : 
For Chriftis faik I will them accept, 

And giue them lyfe eternall. 

FINIS. 

In te Domine fperauu Pfal. xxxi. 

LORD, let me neuer be confoundit, 
That firmely do confyde in the : 
Bot let thy juftice ay be groundit 
With mercy to delyuer me. 

Inclyne thine reuthfull eiris in tyme, 

To me that am in miferie : 
And from all fort of fin and cryme, 

Thow bliffit Lord, delyuer me. 

Be my defendar, God of grace, 
My gyde, my gouernour, all thre ; 

And in thy heuinlie dwelling place, 
Of all refuge thow fuccour me. 



142 Go, hart) vnto the Lamp of licht. 

For fen thow art my ftrenth and force. 
My hope, fupport, and haill fupplie : 

Be thy fweit name, and deid on Croce, 
Thow fall vpbring and nourifhe me, 

Thow fall me gyde from gyrne and fnair, 
And byde in fecreit quhair nane may fe ; 

For thow art keipar kit and air, 
Prote&our and defence of me. 

My fpreit I rander in thy handis, 

Eternall God of veritie : 
Quhilk hes from bailfull Baliallis bandis 

Redemit and delyuerit me. 

FINIS. 

GO, hart, vnto the Lamp of licht, 
Go, hart, do feruice and honour ; 
Go, hart, and feme him day and nicht, 
Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour. 

Go, hart, to thy only remeid, 

Defcending from the heuinlie tour, 

The to delyuer from pyne and deid; 
Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour. 

Go, hart, but diffimulatioun, 

To Chrift, that tuke our vyle nature, 

For the to fuffer Paffioun ; 
Go, hart, vnto my Sauiour. 



Go, hart, richt humbill and [full] meik, 
Go, hart, as leill and trew feruitour, 



To 






Our Brother let vs put in graue. 1 43 

To him that heill is for all feik ; 
Go, hart, vnto my Sauiour, 

Go, hart, with trew and haill intent, 
To Chrift, thy help and haill fuccour; 

The to redeme he was all rent ; 
Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour. 

To Chrift, that rais from deith to lyue, 

Go, hart, vnto my latter hour, 
Quhais greit mercy can nane difcryue ; 

Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour. 

FINIS. 

OVR Brother let vs put in graue, 
And na dout thairof let vs haue 
Bot he fall ryfe on Domifday, 
And haue immortall lyfe for ay. 

He is of eird, and of eird maid, 
And mon returne to eird throw deid ; 
Syne ryfe fall fra the eird and ground, 
Quhen that the laft trumpet fall found. 

The faull regnis with God in gloir, 
And he fall fuffer paine no moir ; 
For caus his faith was conftantlie 
In Chriftis blude allanerlie. 

His painefull pilgramage is paft, 
And till ane end cummin at the laft, 
Deand in Chriftis zock full fweit, 
Bot zit is leuand in his Spreit. 

The faull leuis with God, I fay, 



1 44 Our Brother let vs put in graue. 

The body fleipis quhill Domifday ; 

Then Chrift fall bring them baith to gloir, 

To ring with him for euer moir. 

In eird he hed vexatioun, 
Bot now he hes faluatioun, 
Ringand in gloir and blis but weir, 
And fchynis as the fone fa cleir. 

Ye faithfull, thairfoir let him fleip, 
And nocht lyke Hethin for him weip ; 
Bot deiply prent into zour breift, 
That deid to vs approchis neift. 

Quhen cummin is our hour and tyme, 
Then we mon turnit be in flyme ; 
And thair is nane vther defence, 
Bot die in hope with pacience. 

Thocht pell: or fword wald vs preuene, 
Befoir our hour to flay vs clene, 
Thay can nocht pluke ane lytill hair 
Furth of our heid, nor do vs deir. 

Quhen fra this warld to Chrift we wend, 
Our wretchit fchort lyfe mon haue end, 
Changeit fra paine and miferie 
To leftand gloir eternallie. 

End fall our day is, fchort and vaine, 
And fin, quhilk we culd not refraine ; 
Endit falbe our pilgramage, 
And brocht hame to our heritage. 

Chrift, 



Mujing greitly in my my tide. 145 

Chrift, for thy micht and celfitude, 
That for our finnis fched thy blude, 
Grant vs in faith to leue and die, 
And fyne reffaue our faulis to the. 

FINIS. 

MVSING greitlie in my mynde, 
The folie that is in mankynde, 
Quhilk is fa brukill and fa blind, 

And downe fall cum, downe ay, downe ay. 

Leuand maift part in all vice, 
Nouther fa gracious, nor fa wyfe, 
As out of wretchitnes to ryfe, 

Bot downe to cum, downe ay, downe ay. 

And all this warld to weild thow had, 
Thy body perfit and properlie maid, 
Zit man, as floure, thow fall faid, 

And downe thow fall cum, downe ay. 

Thocht thow war euer eternall, 

As man that neuer fuld haue ane fall, 

Zit doutles die thow fall, 

And downe fall cum, downe ay, downe ay. 

Thocht thow war man neuer fa thrall 
Remember zit that die thow fall; 
Quha hieft clymmis gettis greiteft fall, 

And downe fall cum, downe ay, downe ay. 

Thocht thow war neuer of fa greit degre, 
In riches nor in dignitie, . „ 

K.j 



146 Pray God for grace. 

Remember, man, that thow mon die, 

And downe fall cum, downe ay, downe ay. 

Thair is na King, nor Empreour, 
Duke, nor Lord of greit valure, 
Bot he fall faid as lely flour e, 

And downe fall cum, downe ay, downe ay. 

Quhair is Adam, and Eve his wyfe, 
And Hercules, with his lang ftryfe, 
And MatufTalem, with his lang lyfe ? 
Thay all ar cum downe ay, downe ay. 

FINIS. 

PRAY God for grace, my lufe maift deir, 
Quhilk bocht vs with his precious blude, 
That we him lufe with hairt inteir, 
In welth and want, be land and flude. 

Afk, and haue, fayis the Lord ; 

Als geue, and geuin fall be to zow. 
Quhat fweiter thing may we record, 

Nor thy word, Chrift, firmelie to trow? 

Traift we alfwa, baith air and lait, 
With faithfull hope and efperance, 

We fall reffaue, efter our eftait, 
All juft defy re but difcripance. 

Thairfoir, I think we fuld rejoyis, 

And now greit myrthis mak from the fplene, 

Sen we ar chofin to repois 

In faith of Chrift, and lyfe ferene. 

Chrift 



Downe be %one Riuer I ran. 147 

Chrift our onlie fuccour in diftres ; 

In till his grace quha dois confyde, 
His grace till him will ay incres, 

Quhen warldlie traift will faill at neid. 

FINIS. 

DOWNE be zone Riuer I ran, 
Downe be zone riuer I ran, 
Thinkand on Chrift fa fre 
That brocht me to libertie ; 
And I ane finfull man. 

Quha fuld be my lufe bot he, 
That hes onlie fauit me, 

And be his deith me wan : 
On the croce fa cruellie, 
He fched his blude aboundantlie, 

And all for the lufe of man. 

How fuld we thank that Lord, 
That was fa mifericord, 

Be quhome all grace began ! 
With cruell paine and fmart, 
He was peirfit throw the hart, 

And all for the lufe of man. 

That gaue him in the Jewis handis, 
To brek bailfull Baliallis bandis, 

Firft quhen he began : 
Thair gaue him felf to die, 
To mak vs catiues fre, 

Remember finfull man. 
K.ij 



148 Downe be zone Riuer I ran. 

Thay fpittit in his face, 
All for our lufe, allace ! 

That Lord he fufFerit than 
The cruell panis of deid, 
Quhilk was our haill remeid, 

Remember finfull man. 

Loue we that Lord allone, 
Quhilk deit on the throne, 

Our finnis to refraine : 
Prayfe him with all our micht, 
Sing till him day and nicht, 

The gloir of God and man. 

Do all that thow art abill, 
Zit thow art vnprofitabill : 

Do all that thow can, 
Except thow wefchin be, 
With Chriftis blude allanerlie, 

Thow art condampnit man. 

And fa I mak ane end, 
Chrift, grant vs all to kend, 

And fteidfaft to remaine, 
Into Chriftis paffioun, 
Our onlie faluatioun, 

And in nane vther man. 

FINIS. 

WITH heuie hart full of diftres, 
Lamenting my greit finfulnes, 
To the, O Lord, quha may me cure, 
Haue reuth on me thy creature. 

The 



With heuie hart full of dlftres. 149 

The feiknes that is in my flefche, 
Thow may it, Lord, allone depefche, 
And purge it clene, and mak it pure, 
And faue me thy creature. 

For in this feiknes I was borne, 
And my foirbearis me beforne. 
Our feiknes on thy back thow bure, 
To faue me, Lord, thy creature. 

This feiknes, Lord, it is the fin, 
That I was borne and gottin in, 
Proceiding of my vyle nature, 
Zit faue me finfull creature. 

Thow may me faue, thow may me fpill, 
Baith lyfe and deid lyis in thy will ; 
Thow art the chirurgiane fure, 
That haillis all eirdlie creature. 

Lord, thair is na faluatioun, 

Bot in thy bliffit Paffioun, 

As witnes beiris the trew Scripture, 

Thow faifis all eirdlie creature. 

And for the fame to mak remeid, 
Thow fuffeit nocht to fuiFer deid, 
And mekill mair thow did indure, 
To faue thy finfull creature. 

To the, O Lord, thairfoir I call, 
For thy remeid, and euer fall, 
Quhill I be laid in fepulture, 
K. iij 



I 5° Welcurn^ Lord Chrift. 

To faue thy finfull creature. 

For all the trubill and the paine, 
I neuer wrocht fa gude againe, 
But was vnthankfull feruiture : 
Haue reuth on me thy creature. 

Swa onlie thow, gude Lord of peace, 
I me fubmit into thy grace, 
For of my feiknes, thow may me cure, 
And faue thy finfull creature. 

FINIS. 



WELCVM, Lord Chrift, welcum againe, 
My joy, my comfort, and my blis, 
That culd me faue from hellis paine: 
Bot onlie thow, nane was, nor is. 

Thairfoir, I may richt baldly lay, 

Geue Chrift, the quhilk hes me redreft, 

Be on my fyde, quhilk hes done pay 
My ranfoun, quha can me moleft? 

Sen Chrift now hes maid me at one 
With God the Father, and did die 

To mak me juft, to gloir is gone; 

Than quhat ar thay can condampne me ? 

Was neuer nane to me mair kynde 
Nor Chrift, thairfoir I will him pryfe, 

Onlie with faule, body, and mynde : 
My hope and traift haill in him lyis. 

Bot 



Chrift, quhilk art the lycht. 151 

Bot that quhilk Scripture hes expreft, 
Ane facrifice Chrift anis thairfoir 

OfFerit to God, quhilk fmellit belt, 
For my trefpas, I feik no moir. 

My part is than from fin to ceis, 

And cleif to Chrift, quhilk hes fuppreft 

Sin, deith, and hell, and maid my peace, 
Throw faith in him that I might reft. 

FINIS. 

O CHRIST, quhilk art the licht of day, 
The elude of nicht thow driuis away ; 
The beame of gloir beleuit richt, 
Schawand till vs thy perfyte licht. 

This is na nycht, as naturall, 
Nor zit na cloud materiall, 
That thow expellis, as I heir fay, 
O Chrift, quhilk art the licht of day. 

This nicht I call Idolatrie, 
The cloude ouirfpred, Hypocrifie, 
Send from the Prince of all vnricht, 
O Chrift, for till obfeure thy licht. 

Quhilk twa hes had dominioun, 
Lang leidand to diftructioun, 
The maift part of this warld aftray 
Fra Chrift, quhilk is the licht of day. 

Turnand till Goddis infinite, 
Puttand thair hope and thair delyte 
K. iiij 



152 0' Chrift ^ quhilk art the lycht. 

In warkis inuentit with the flicht 
Of Sathan, contrair to thy licht. 

Sum makis Goddis of ftok and ftaine, 
Sum makis Goddis of Sanftis baine, 
Quhilk war thay leuand heir, wald fay, 
Idolateris, do way, do way. 

To vs gif nouther laud nor gloir, 

O fulis, gif ze fpeir quhairfoir? 

We had na thing throw our awin micht, 

Bot all we had throw Chrilt our licht. 

To that exempill fall be Paull 
At Liftra, quha rufufit all 
Maner of gloir, and this did fay, 
Geue gloir to Chrift, the licht of day. 

Geue nane to vs, we ar bot men, 
Mortall as ze zour felfis may ken; 
O fulis, quhairfoir tak ze flycht, 
Rinnand fra Chrift, the perfite licht? 

Sum makis goddis of freiris caip, 
Thay monflouris mot in gallous gaip ; 
For thay haue led vs lang aftray 
Fra Chrift, quhilk is the licht of day. 

Sum mumlit Aueis, fum crakit Creidis, 
Sum makis goddis of thair beidis, 
Quhilk wait nocht quhat thay fing nor fay : 
Allace! this is ane wrangous way. 

FINIS. 

WITH 



With hunt is vp. 153 

WITH huntis vp, with huntis vp, 
It is now perfite day, 
Jefus, our King, is gane in hunting, 
Quha lykis to fpeid thay may. 

Ane curfit fox lay hid in rox 

This lang and mony ane day, 
Deuouring fcheip, quhill he micht creip, 

Nane micht him fchaip away. 

It did him gude to laip the blude 

Of zoung and tender lammis ; 
Nane culd he mis, for all was his, 

The zoung anis with thair dammis. 

The hunter is Chrift, that huntis in haiit, 

The hundis ar Peter and Paull, 
The Paip is the foxe, Rome is the rox, 

That rubbis vs on the gall. 

That cruell beift, he neuer ceift, 

Be his vfurpit power, 
Under difpens to get our penneis, 

Our faulis to deuoir. 

Quha culd deuyfe fie merchandife 

As he had thair to fell, 
Onles it war proud Lucifer, 

The greit maifter of Hell. 

He had to fell the Tantonie bell, 

And pardonis thairin was ; 
Remiffioun of finnis in auld fcheip Ikinnis, 



154 With huntis vp. 

Our faulis to bring from grace. 

With bullis of leid, quhyte wax and reid, 

And vther quhylis with grene, 
Clofit in ane box, this vfit the fox, 

Sic peltrie was neuer fene. 

With difpenfatiounis and obligatiounis, 

According to his law, 
He wald difpens, for money from hence, 

With thame he neuer faw. 

To curs and ban the fempill pure man, 

That had nocht to fie the paine ; 
Bot quhen he had payit all to ane myte, 

He mon be obfoluit than. 

To fum, God wot, he gaue tot quot, 

And vther fum pluralitie ; 
Bot firft with penneis he mon difpens, 

Or ellis it will nocht be. 

Kingis to marie, and fum to tarie, 

Sic is his power and micht, 
Quha that hes gold, with him will he hold, 

Thocht it be contrair all richt. 

O bliffit Peter, the foxe is ane lier, 
Thow knawis weill it is nocht fa, 

Quhill at the laft, he falbe downe caft 
His peltrie, pardonis, and all. 

FINIS. 

BANEIST 



Baneljl is Faith. 155 

BANEIST is faith now euerie quhair, 
And fair forthinkis me : 
Baneifl is faith now euerie quhair, 
Be the fchauin fort, I zow declair. 
Allace ! thairfoir my hart is fair, 
And blyith I can nocht be. 

Quhair we war wount to go richt glaid, 

Furth of captiuitie ; 
Quhair we war wount to go richt glaid, 
Now haue thay vs with chargis ouerlaid, 
Quhilk bene fa dampnabill, and fa fad, 

That blyith we can nocht be. 

Thay keip the key from vs, allace, 

Quhairby enter fuld we : 
Thay keip the key from vs, allace, 
And puttis vs downe all mercyles ; 
We ar ouerthrawin in euerie place, 

That blyith we can nocht be. 

Ryfe vp, I pray the now, fweit Lord, 

And from thair crueltie : 
Ryfe vp, I pray the now, fweit Lord, 
Defend vs according to thy word, 
Or we fall perifche be fyre and fword, 

That ihawis the veritie. 

FINIS. 

MVSING greitlie in my mynde, 
The cruell kirkmen in thair kynde, 
Quhilk bene indurit and fa blind, 
And trowis neuer to cum downe. 



156 Mufing greltlie in my mynde. 

Thocht thow be Paip or Cardinall, 
Sa heich in thy Pontificall : 
Refift thow God that creat all, 

Than downe thow fall cum, downe. 

Thocht thow be Archebifchop, or Deane, 
Chantour, Chanflar, or Chaplane, 
Refift thow God, thy gloir is gaine, 
And downe thow fall cum, downe. 

Thocht thow flow in Philofophie, 
Or graduate in Theologie, 
Zit and thow fyle the veritie, 

Than downe thow fall cum, downe. 

Thocht thow be of Religioun, 
The ftraiteft in all regioun, 
Zit and thow glaik or gagioun 
The treuth, thow fall cum downe. 

Quhair is Chore, and Abirone, 
Jamnes, Jambres, and Dathane, becum? 
To refift God, quhilk maid thame bowne, 
Ar thay nocht all cumit downe? 

And quhair is Balaamis fals counfell ? 
Quhair is the prophetis of Jefabell ? 
And Bellis preiftis ? be Daniell 

Downe thay war all brocht, downe. 

And mony ma I culd zow fchaw, 
Quhilk of thair God wald ftand na aw, 
Bot him refiftit and his law, 

And 



Mufing greitlle in my my tide. 157 

And downe thay ar cum, downe. 

Thair is na king nor empriour, 
Erie nor duke, of greit valure, 
From tyme ze knaw thair fals errour, 
Bot he fall pluck thame downe. 

Ophni and Phenis gat na grace, 
Hely brak his nek, allace ! 
And his offpring put fra thair place : 
King Salomone put thame downe. 

And king Achab and Helyas 
The fals prophetis diftroyit hes ; 
And als the nobill Jofias, 
Put all fals prophetis downe. 

Is thair na ma? quhy faid I all? 
Zit mony thoufand fall haue ane fall, 
Quhilk haldis Chriften men in thrall, 
Princes fall put thame downe. 

Wald thay na mair impunge the treuth, 
Syne in thair office be nocht fleuth ; 
Than Chrift on thame fuld haue fie reuth, 
That thay fall nocht cum downe. 

I pray to God that thay and we 
Obey his word in vnitie, 
Throw faith warkand be cheritie, 
And lat vs neuer cum downe. 

FINIS. 



158 The Bifchop ofHely. 

THE Bifchop of Hely brak his neck, 
Difherift of his benefice, 
Caufe he the Preiftis wald not correct, 
Corruptand Goddis Sacrifice. 
Sen our Hely in his office, 
Is lyke in preuaricatioun : 

He fall reffaue fie lyke juftice, 
Mak he nocht reformatioun. 

The Leuittis, at thair awin hand, 

Thay reft thair teind, and mekill mair, 

Expres aganis Goddis command; 
Thair huredome haitit he richt fair* 
Thairfoir, God fend thame fie cruell weir, 

Thay tint the feild, the Ark was tane : 
Hely fell downe, throw fuddand feir, 

And brak his neck and coller bane. 

Ophni and Phenis, zour confcience remord, 

Amend zour lyfe, or in the feild 
Ze falbe flaine ; and ze my Lord, 

Quhilk hes the wyte that thay ar keild, 

Helis jugement falbe your beild; 
And als zour mortall ennemeis 

Sail bruke, withouttin fpeir or fcheild, 
Zour office, euin before zour eyis. 

For zour abufe may be ane brother, 

To Pharis als lyke in fimilitude, 
As euer ane eg was lyke ane vther, 

Of Goddis word baith deftitude ; 

And greit God of fanftitude, 
Quhais power hes nocht tane ane end, 

Sail 



I am wo for thlr wolfisfa wylde. 159 

Sail fend with that fame fortitude, 
Siclyke to zow, except ze mend. 

All the exempillis of the Law 

Ar writtin with greit diligence, 
For our faikis, that me (land aw 

Of Goddis hie magnificence : 

Of this we haue experience, 
Of diuers natiounis round about ; 

For Inglis Prelatis, Duche, and Dence, 
For thair abufe ar rutit out. 

Reforme in tyme, leue zour tyrannie ; 

Fir ft mend zour lyfe, fyne leirne to preiche, 
Thocht wage our Freiris faine wald lie ; 

The treuth will furth, and will nocht leiche ; 

For euerie man dois vther teiche, 
And countis nocht zour crueltie ; 

Except ze mend, I will nocht fleiche, 
Ze fall end all mifcheuouflie. 

FINIS. 

I AM wo for thir wolfis fa wylde, 
Quhilk neuer will conuert 
Thair fals indurit hart ; 
Sa lang the warld thay haue begylde, 
And baneift vs from Jefus Chrift. 

Greit caufe thay haue for till repent, 

Zit will thay nocht do fo, 

Nowther for weill nor wo : 
Thair blindit mynde can nocht confent, 

That we are onlie fauit be Chrift, 



160 I am wo for thir wolfisfa wylde. 

Thair fubtill flychtis now ar fpyit 

Be Chrift the veritie : 

Thair fals hypocrefie 
Throw all the warld is now out cryit, 

Quhairwith thay baneift vs fra Chrift. 

Thay brint, and heryit Chriften men, 

And flemit thame full far ; 

And faid, Thay did bot erre 
That fpak of the Commandementis ten, 

Or red the word of Jefus Chrift. 

Heretykis thay did vs call, 

Curfand vs nicht and day, 

The treuth durft na man fay. 
Trew preichouris war forbiddin all 

To fchaw the word of Jefus Chrift. 

Thay baneift thame in vncouth land, 

Full mony hunder myle ; 

Quhair thay in thair exile, 
Leirnit better till vnderftand 

The trew word of Jefus Chrift. 

Nobill Lordis of greit renowne, 

That fauouris the treuth, 

On zour faulis haue reuth, 
And put thir Antichriftis downe, 

Quhilk wald fuppres the word of Chrift. 

Under cullour of commounweill, 
Thair cloikit fubteltie, 
And with greit crueltie, 

Efter 



I am wo for thir wolfisfa wylde. 1 6 1 

Efter thay think to flay and keill 
All that confes the word of Chrift. 

For fa thay think to bleir zour eye, 

And fyne at zow to hount, 

And do as thay war wount, 
And will exerce thair tyrannie 

On zow, and all that luifis Chrift. 

Scotland was neuer in harder cafe, 

Sen Fergus firft it wan : 

The preiftis we may fair ban, 
Quhilk hes the wyte that brak the peace, 

For to put downe the word of Chrift. 

Ane hundreth thoufand thay wald fe 

Zockit in till ane feild, 

Under their fpeir and fheild ; 
Bot with the wyfis thay wald be 

At hame, to fmoir the word of Chrift. 

Defend na mair thir wolfis fa wylde, 

Sa full of cruelnes, 

Thair cloikit halynes, 
Baith men and wyfis fa lang hes fylde, 

And ar the verray Antichriftis. 

FINIS. 

ALLACE, vnkyndlie, Chrift we haue exilit, 
And of thair fude his flock we haue begilit ; 
With vanities we haue thame lang deludit, 
And in fals beleif hes thame includit : 

And euer this was the blating of our queir, 
L.j 



1 62 Allace vnkyndlie Cbriji. 

Fatheris of haly kirk this xv. hunder zeir. 

The water of lyfe we gaue them neuer to drink, 
Bot ftinkand pulis of euerie rottin fynk ; 
For haly Scripture allutterlie we haue mockit, 
And with traditionis of men we haue them zockit ; 
And euer this was the blating of our queir, 
Fatheris of haly kirk this xv. hunder zeir. 

Man befoir God fa lang we haue preferrit, 

Quhill we fe now almaift that all is marrit ; 

And God him felf is greuit and difplefit, 

And we thairby ar bot lytill eafit ; 

Althocht it be the blating of our queir, 
Fatheris of haly kirk this xv. hunder zeir. 

Our blind defyris fen we may nocht fulfill, 
Welcum, gude Lord, full fair aganis our will ; 
Zit nocht the les we fall do as we may, 
And efter this luke for ane better day ; 
And zit falbe the blating of our queir, 
Fatheris of haly kirk this xv. hunder zeir. 

We knaw, as did King Saull, our fatell fall ; 
Zit, quhill we die, Dauid perfew we fall : 
Suppofe we fuld wrack our felf, and tyne 
The feild, and all our kin be hangit fyne, 
Zit fall it be the blating of our queir, 
Fatheris of haly kirk this xv. hunder zeir. 

Lat Mofes preiche to Pharao as he lykis, 
Zit fall the pepill be tormentit lyke tykis, 
And neuer depart from Egypt : (giue we may) 

We 



Of 'the fals fyre of Purgatorie. 163 

We falbe cruelleft on the hinmeft day. 

Quhen we ar drownit, we fall blait on our beir, 
Fatheris of haly kirk this xv. hunder zeir. 

O cankerit cariounis, and O ze rottin ftakis, 
O ftangand edderis, and O ze poyfound fnakis, 
Sen ze will not change zour indurit will, 
Knawand zour fault, zit will continew frill; 
Sing on guk, guk, the blating of zour queir, 
Fals fatheris of haly kirk, this xv. hunder zeir. 

FINIS. 

OF the fals fyre of Purgatorie 
Is nocht left in ane fponk : 
Thairfoir fay is Gedde, Way is me, 
Gone is preift, freir, and monk. 

The reik, fa wounder deir, thay folde 

For money, gold, and landis ; 
Quhill halfe the riches on the molde, 

Is feafit in thair handis. 

Thay knew na thing bot couetice, 

And lufe of paramouris : 
And lat the faulis burn and bis 

Of all thair Foundatouris. 

At corps prefence thay wald fmg, 

For ryches to flokkin the fyre ; 
Bot all pure folk that had na thing 

Was fkaldit baine and lyre. 

! Zit fat thay heich in Parliament, 
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164 Wo is the Hirdis of Ifraell. 

Lyke Lordis of greit renowne : 
Quhill now that the New Teftament 
Hes it and thame brocht downe. 

And thocht thay fuffe at it, and blaw, 

Ay quhill thair bellyis ryue : 
The mair thay blaw, full weill thay knaw 

The mair it dois mifthryue. 

FI NIS. 

WO is the Hirdis of Ifraell 
That feidis nocht Chriftis flock; 
Bot daintelie thay feid thame felf, 
Syne dois the pepill mock. 

The fyllie fcheip was all forlorne, 

And was the wolfis pray : 
The hirdis teindit all the corne, 

The fcheip culd get na ftray. 

Thay gadderit vp baith woll and milk, 

And tuke na mair cure, 
Bot cled thame with the coifllie fylk, 

And ficlyke cled thair hure. 

Thairfoir fay is God, I will requyre 

My fcheip furth of thair handis, 
And giue thame hirdis at my defyre, 

To teiche thame my commandis. 

And thay fall nouther feid them felf, 

Nor zit hounger my fcheip : 
I fall them from my Kirk expell, 

And 



God fend euerie Preift ane wyfe. 1 65 
And geue thame fwyne to keip. 

FINIS. 

GOD fend euerie Preift ane wyfe, 
And euerie Nunne ane man, 
That thay micht leue that haly lyfe, 
As firft the Kirk began. 

Sanft Peter, quhome nane can reprufe, 

His lyfe in mariage led : 
All gude preiftis quhome God did lufe, 

Thair maryit wyfis had. 

Greit caufe than, I grant, had thay, 

Fra wyfis to refraine : 
Bot greiter caufis haue thay may 

Now wyfis to wed againe. 

For than fuld nocht fa mony hure 

Be vp and downe this land ; 
Nor zit fa mony beggeris pure 

In kirk and mercat ftand. 

And nocht fa mekill baftard feid 

Throw out this cuntrie fawin ; 
Nor gude men vncouth fry fuld feid, 

And all the fuith war knawin. 

Sen Chriftis law, and commoun law, 

And Doftouris will admit, 
That Preiftis in that zock fuld draw ; 

Quha dar fay contrair it. 

FINIS. 

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1 66 The wind b law is cauld. 



THE wind blawis cauld, furious and bauld, 
This lang and mony day : 
But Chriftis mercy we man all die, 
Or keip the cauld wind away. 

This wind fa keine, that I of meine, 

It is the vyce of auld; 
Our faith is inclufit, and plainelie abufit, 

This wind hes blawin to cauld. 

This wind hes blawin lang the pepill amang, 

And blindit hes thair wit ; 
The ignorant pepill fa lawk bene and febill, 

That thay wat nocht quhome to wyte. 

Goddis word and la wis, the pepill mifknawis, 

Na credence hes the Scripture; 
Quha the fuith dois infer, preiftis fay thay erre, 

Sic bene thair bufie cure. 

Quha dois prefent the New Teftament, 

Quhilk is our faith furelie ; 
Preiftis callis him lyke ane heretyke, 

And fayis, brunt fall he be. 

This cryis on hie the Spiritualitie, 

As nane thame fuld defy : 
Bot thair illufioun and fals abufioun 

The pepill dois now efpy. 

Quhome fuld we wyte of this difpyte, 

That hid fra vs Goddis Law, 
Bot Preiftis and Clerkis, and thair euill warkis, 

Quhilk 



The wind blawis cauld. 167 

Quhilk dois thair God mifknaw. 

Their greit extortioun, and plaine oppreffioun, 

Afcendis in the air: 
Without God puneis thair cruell vyce 

This warld fall all forfair. 

The theif Judas did greit trefpas, 

That Chrift for filuer fauld : 
Bot preiftis will tak, and his pryce mak, 

For les be mony fauld. 

With wrang abfolutiouns, & defaitfull pardonis, 

For lucre to thame geuin ; 
Thay blind vs now, and garris vs trow, 

Sic will bring vs till heuin. 

Giue eirdlie pardonis micht be our faluatiounis, 

Than Chrift deit in vaine : 
Giue geir micht by Goddis greit mercy, 

Than fals is the Scripture plaine. 

Syne for our fchoir he deit thairfoir, 

And tholit pane for our mis ; 
Is nane bot he that may furelie 

Bring vs to heuinnis blis. 

Than be na way, fe that ze pray 

To Peter, James, nor Johne, 
Nor zit to Paule, to faue zour faule; 

For power haue thay none. 

Saue Chrift onlie, that deit on tre, 
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1 68 Hay now, the day dallis. 

He may baith loufe and bind. 
In vtheris mo, geue ze traift fo, 
On zow blawis cauld the wind. 

Now fe ze pray, baith nicht and day, 

To Chrift that bocht vs deir : 
For on the rude he fched his blude 

To faue our faulis but weir. 

FINIS. 

HAY now, the day dallis, 
Now Chrifl: on vs callis, 
Now welth on our wallis, 

Apperis anone: 
Now the word of God regnis, 
Quhilk is King of all kingis, 
Now Chriftis flock flngis, 
The nicht is neir gone. 

Wo be vnto zow hypocritis, 
That on the Lord fa loudlie leis, 
And all for to fill zour foule belleis : 

Ze ar nocht of Chriftis blude nor bone ; 
For ze preiche zour awin dremis, 
And fa the word of God blafphemis ; 
God wat fa weill it femis, 

The nicht is neir gone. 

Wo be to zow Pharefians, 

That regnis zit lyke hie capitanis, 

And haldis Chriftis men in mony panis, 

Richt cairfull is thair mone: 
I traift till God ze fall deir by it, 

Becaus 



Hay now, the day dallis. 169 

Becaus zour falfet is now fpyit, 
And all Chriftin men fall cry it : 
The nicht is neir gone. 

Wo be to zow, Paip and Cardinall, 
I traift to God ze fall get ane fall, 
With Monkis, Preiftis, and Freiris all, 

That traiftis nocht in God allone : 
For all zour greit pomp and pryde, 
The word of God ze fall nocht hyde, 
Nor zit till vs na mair be gyde : 

The nicht is neir gone. 

Ze gart vs trow in ftok and ftone, 
That thay wald help mony one, 
And nocht till traift in God allone ; 

I fay ze leit euerie one : 
I wat Sancl: Peter, nor Sancl Paule, 
Nor zit na Sancl: can faif zour faule, 
Thocht mony lefingis mak mony braull: 

The nicht is neir gone. 

Ze ferue to ftrickin be with roddis, 
Becaufe of idolis ze mak goddis ; 
For all zour joukis and zour noddis, 

Zour hartis is hard as ony ftone. 
Ze will nocht leif zour hypocrifie, 
Bot zour defyris is ay for to lie, 
And the Feind away with zow wald fle : 

The nicht is neir gone. 

Ze begylit vs with zour hudis, 
Schawand zour relykis and zour ruddis. 



i jo Hay now^ the day dallis. 

To pluk fra vs pure men our gudis, 
Ze fchaw vs the heid of Sandt Johne 

With the arme of San£t Geill ; 

To rottin banis ze gart vs kneill, 

And fauit vs from neck to heill • 
The nicht is neir gone. 

Requiem Eternam faft thay patter 

Befoir the deid, with haly watter-, 

The lawit folkis trowis the heuin will clatter, 

Thay fing with fie deuotioun. 
Ze fay that Saule ze fall gar fanct, 
Bot and the money war neuer fa fcant, 
Ane penny of zour wage ze will nocht want : 

The nicht is neir gone. 

Syne to zow we mon offer 

Pundis and penneis furth of our coffer, 

And lay it downe vpon the alter 

For the deid of that one. 
Anime Omnium, ze will fay, 
Syne caft the corps into the clay, 
Than haue ze done all that ze may : 

Now the nicht is neir gone. 

FINIS. 

PREISTIS, Chrift beleue, 
And onlie traift into his blude, 
And not into zour warkis gude, 
As plainely Paull can preue. 
Preiftis, leirne to preiche, 
And put away zour ignorance ; 
Prais onlie God, his word auance, 

And 



Preiftis, Chrift beleue. 171 

And Chriftis pepill teiche. 

Preiftis, cut zour gowne, 
Zour nukit bonet put away, 
And cut zour tippet into tway : 
Go preiche from towne to towne. 

Preiftis, tak zour ftaffe, 
And preiche the Euangell on zour feit, 
And fet on fandellis full meit, 
Bot caft zour pantounis of. 

Preiftis, keip na gold, 
Siluer, nor cunze in zour purs, 
Nor zit twa coitis with zow turs, 
Bot fchone to keip zow from cold. 

Preiftis, thoill to preiche, 
Sen ze zour felfis can preiche na thing ; 
Or we zour brawling downe fall bring, 
And na mair with zow fleiche. 

Preiftis, tak na teind, 
Except the word of God ze fchaw; 
Thocht ze alledge zour vfe and law, 
It is nocht as ze weind. 

Preiftis, tak na kyis, 
The vmeft claith ze fall quyteclaime 
Fra fex pure barnis with thair dame, 
A uengeance on zow cryis. 

Preiftis, burne no mo, 
Of wrang delatioun ze may hyre, 
And fals witnes na mair inquire, 
And let abjuring go. 

Preiftis, all and fum 
Suld call ane Counfell Generall, 
And dres all thingis Spirituall; 



172 PreiJliSy Chrift beleue* 

Bot thair thay will not cum. 

Preiftis, read and wryte, 
And zour fals Cannoun law lat be,} 
Quhair Papis contrair Scripturis lie, 
And contrair Dodlouris dyte. 

Preiftis, pryde zow nocht 
Quhat zour Counfellis hes conclude 
Contrair the writ and Chriftis blude, 
The quhilk fa deir vs bocht. 

Preiftis, curfe no moir, 
And now zour hartis na mair indure ; 
Bot on zour floclds tak cure, 
Or God fall curfe zow foir. 

Preiftis, leif zour pryde, 
Zour ikarlat and zour veluote foft, 
Zour hors and mulis coiftlie coft, 
And jakmen be zour fyde. 

Preiftis, fober be, 
And fecht not, nouther boift nor fchoir ; 
Mifreule the realme and court no moir, 
And to zour kirkis fle. 

Preiftis, mend zour lyfe, 
And leif zour foule fenfualitie, 
And vylde ftinkand chaiftitie, 
Ane ilk ane wed ane wyfe. 

Preiftis, pray nae mair 
To Sanft Anthone to faue thy fow, 
Nor to Sanft Bryde to keip thy cow ; 
That greuis God richt fair. 

Preiftis, worfhip God, 
And put away zour imagerie, 
Zour pardonis and fraternitie, 

To 



Preiftis, Chriji beleue. 1 73 

To hell, the way and rod. 

Preiftis, fell na mes, 
Bot minifter that facrament, 
As Chrift, in the New Teftament, 
Commandit zow expres. 

Preiftis, put away 
Zour paintit fyre of purgatorie, 
The ground of zour idolatrie ; 
It is neir Domifday. 

Preiftis, change zour tone, 
And fing into zour mother tung 
Inglis Pfalmes, and ze impunge, 
Ze will dyne efter none. 

Preiftis, preif zow men, 
And now defend zour libertie; 
For France, and for zour dignitie, 
Ze brak the peace ze ken. 

Preiftis, now confes, 
How ze fa lang did vs begyle, 
With mony haly bellie wyle, 
To leue in idilnes. 

Preiftis, I zow exhort, 
Zour office to do perfyte ; 
For I fay nathing in difpyte, 
Sa God mot me fupport. 

FINIS. 

Till our Gude-man, till our Gude-man, 
Keip faith and lufe till our Gude-man. 

FOR our Gude-man in heuin dois ring 
In gloir and blis without ending, 



\~]\ Till our Gude-man. 

Quhair angellis fingis euer Ofan 

In laude and praife of our Gude-man. 

Our Gude-man defyris three thingis : 
Ane hart quhair fra contritioun fpringis, 
Syne lufe him beft our faullis that wan, 
Quhen we war loift fra our Gude-man. 

And our Gude-man that euer was kynde, 
Requyris of vs ane faithfull mynde, 
Syne cheritabill be with euerie clan, 
For lufe only of our Gude-man. 

Zit our Gude-man requyris moir, 
To giue na creature his gloir ; 
And gif we do, do quhat we can, 
We fall be loift fra our Gude-man. 

And our Gude-man he promeift fure, 
To euerie faithfull creature 
His greit mercy, that now or than 
Will call for grace at our Gude-man. 

Adam, that our foirfather was, 
He loift vs all for his trefpas ; 
Quhais brukkill banis we may fair ban, 
That gart vs lois our awin Gude-man. 

Zit our Gude-man, gracious and gude, 
For our faluatioun fched his blude 
Upon the croce, quhair thair began 
The mercyfulnes of our Gude-man. 

This is the blude did vs refrefche; 
This is the blude that mon vs wefche : 
The blude that from his hart furth ran, 

Maid 



Remember , Man. 175 

Maid vs fre airis till our Gude-man. 

Now let vs pray, baith day and hour, 
Till Chrift our onlie Mediatour, 
Till faue vs on the day that quhen 
We fall be judgeit be our Gude-man. 

FINIS. 

REMEMBER, Man, remember, man, 
That I thy faull from Sathan wan, 
And hes done for the that I can : 

Thow art full deir to me. 
Is, was, nor fall be none, 
That may the faue, bot I alone : 
Onlie thairfoir beleue me on, 
And thow fall neuer die. 

Wolfls, quhome of my Euangeliftis wryte, 
And Paull and Peter did of dyte, 
Allace, haue zow di (fault quyte 

With fals hypocrifie ! 
My New Teftament, plaine and gude, 
For quhilk I fched my precious blude, 
Zour only hope and faullis fude 

Thay hald for herifie. 

And hes fet up the fals doftrine, 

For couetife, in fteid of mine, 

With fyre and fword defendis it fyne, 

Contrair my word and me. 
The Antichrift is cummin but dout, 
And hes zow trappit round about ; 
Furth of his gyrne thairfoir cum out, 



176 Remember ', Man. 

Gif ze wald lauit be. 

His pilgramage and purgatorie, 
His worfchipping of imagerie, 
His pardounis and fraternitie, 

With zeill and gude intent, 
The quhifperit fmnis callit eir confeffioun, 
With his Preiftis mummillit abfolutioun, 
And mony vther fals abufioun, 

The Paip hes done inuent. 

With Meffis fauld be Preift and Freir] 
For land and money wounder deir, 
Quhilk is the ground-ftane of thair Queir, 

And rute of all thair pryde ; 
His Pater-nofteris bocht and fauld, 
His numerat Aueis, and Pfalmes tauld, 
Quhilk my New Teftament, nor my Auld, 

On na wayis can abyde. 

Thair half hag matines faft thay patter, # 
Thay geue zow breid, and fellis zow watter; 
His curfingis on zow als thay clatter, 

Thocht thay can hurt zow nocht. 
Giue ze will geue thame caip or bell, 
The clink thairof thay will zow fell, 
Suppofe the faule fuld ga to hell, 

Ze get na thing vnbocht. 

Thay fell zow als the Sacramentis feuin, 
Thay micht haue maid afweill aleuin, 
Few or mony, od or euin, 
Zour purfis for to pyke, 

Wald 



Remember, Man. 1 77 

Wald thay let bot twa vfit be, 
Of Baptifme, and of my Bodie, 
As thay war inftitute be me, 
Men wald thame better lyke. 

Mariage is ane bliffit band, 

Quhilk I gaue man in my command 

To keip, bot thay my word withftand, 

Ane Sacrament it maid : 
Unto thair vther Sacramentis fyue, 
Our Saluatioun thay afcryue, 
Fra my trew faith zow for to dryue, 

In vaine to mak my deid. 

Thair tryflis all ar maid be men, 
Quhilk my Gofpell did neuer ken ; 
My Law and my Commandementis Ten 

Thay hid from mennis eine. 
My New Teftament thay wald keip downe, 
Quhilk fuld be preichit fra towne to towne, 
Caufe it wald cut thair lang tailit gowne, 

And fchaw thair lyues vnclene. 

And now thay ar with dolour pynde, 
And lyke to raige out of thair mynde, 
Becaufe fra thame ze ar declynde, 

And will na lefmgis heir. 
Thairfoir, thay mak fa greit vproir, 
Contrair thy flock of Chriftis ftoir, 
Determit, or thay will geue it ouer, 

To fecht all into feir. 

Bot hald zow at my Teftament faft, 
M.j 



178 Remember^ Man. 

And be na quhit of them agaft, 
For I fall bring doun at the laft 

Thair pryde and crueltie. 
Than cleirly fall my word be fchawin, 
And all thair falfet fall be knawin, 
That thay into all landis haue fawin, 

Be thair Idolatrie. 

And ze fall leue in reft and peace, 
Inftru£tit with my word of grace ; 
For I the Antichrift deface 

Sail, and trew Preichouris fend. 
Repent zour fin with all zour hart, 
And with trew faith to me conuert; 
And heuinly gloir fall be zour part, 

With me to bruik but end. 

We pray the, Jefus Chrift, our Lord, 
Conforme our lyues to thy word, 
That we may Hue with ane accord 

In perfite charitie. 
And forgiue vs our finfulnes, 
And cleith vs with thy richteoufnes ; 
Of thy fauour and gentilnes, 

We pray the that fo be. 

FINIS. 

THE Paip, that pagane full of pryde, 
He hes vs blindit lang ; 
For quhair the blind the blind dois gyde, 

Na wonder thay ga wrang : 
Lyke prince and king he led the ring 
Of all iniquitie : 

Hay 



Hay trix, tryme go trix. 179 

Hay trix, tryme go trix, 

Vnder the grene [wod-tree.] 

Bot his abominatioun 

The Lord hes brocht to licht ; 
His Popifche pryde, and thrinfalde crowne, 

Almaifl: hes loift thair micht; 
His plak pardounis, ar bot lardounis 

Of new found vanitie : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

His Cardinallis hes caus to murne, 

His Bifchoppis borne aback : 
His Abbottis gat ane vncouth turne, 

Quhen fchauelingis went to fack : 
With burges wyfis thay led thair lyfis, 

And fure better nor we : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

His Carmelites, and Jacobin is, 

His Dominiks had greit ado; 
His Cordeleiris, and Auguftinis, 

Sanct Frances ordour to-, 
Thay fillie Freiris, mony zeiris, 

With babling blerit our ee : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

The Sifteris gray, befoir this day, 

Did crune within thair cloifter; 
Thay feit ane freir thair keyis to beir, 

The Feind reffaue the fofter-, 
Syne in the mirk, fa weill culd wirk, 

And kittill thame wantounlie : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 
M. ij 



180 Hay trix, try me go trix. 

The blind Bifchop he culd nocht preiche, 

For playing with the laffis ; 
The fyllie Freir behuffit to fleiche, 

For almous that he affis ; 
The Curat his creid he culd nocht reid, 

Schame fall the cumpanie : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

The Bifchop wald nocht wed ane wyfe, 

The Abbote not perfew ane, 
Thinkand it was ane luftie lyfe, 

Ilk day to haue ane new ane, 
In euerie place, ane vncouth face, 

His luft to fatiffie : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

The Perfoun wald nocht haue ane hure, 

Bot twa, and thay war bony; 
The Vicar (thocht he was pure), 

Behuiffit to haue als mony; 
The pareis Preift, that brutall beift, 

He polit thame priuelie : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

Of Scotland Well, the Freiris of Faill, 

The lymmerie lang hes leftit; 
The Monkis of Melros maid gude kaill 

On Frydayis quhen thay faftit ; 
The fyllie Nunnis caift up thair bunnis, 

And heifit thair hippis on hie : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

Of lait I faw thir lymmaris ftand, 

Lyke 



Hay trix y tryme go trix. 1 8 1 

Lyke mad men at mifcheif, 
Thinking to get the vpper hand, 

Thay hike efter releif : 
Bot all in vaine, go tell thame plaine, 

That day will neuer be : 
Hay trix, tryme go trix, &c. 

O Jefus ! gif thay thocht greit glie, 

To fe Goddis word downe fmorit, 
The Congregatioun maid to flie, 

Hypocrefie reftorit; 
With Meffis lung, and bellis rung, 

To thair Idolatrie ; 
Marie, God thank zow, we fall gar brank zow 

Befoir that tyme trewlie. 

FINIS. 

SAY weill is throuchlie a worthy thing; 
Of Say weill, greit vertew furth dois fpring ; 
Say weill, from Do weill, diiferis in letter ; 
Say weill is gude, but Do weill is better. 

Say weill is repute be man fum deale ; 
Bot do weill onlie to God dois appealer 
Say weill fayis godlie, and dois mony pleafe; 
Bot do weill leuis godlie, and dois this warld eafe. 

Say weill, mony vnto Goddis word cleuis ; 
Bot for laik of do weill, it quicklie leuis : 
Bot gif fay weill & do weill war joynit in a frame, 
All war done, all war won, gottin war the game. 

Say weill in danger of deith is cauld, 
M. iij 



1 82 Say weill, and Do weill. 

Do weill is harneft, and wondrous bauld • 
Than fay weill for feir fall trimbill and quaik; 
Do weill fall be jocund, and joly cheir mak. 

Say weill is flipper, and makis mony wylis ; 
Do weill is femely, without ony gylis ; 
Quhen fay weill at fum tymes falbe brocht bafe, 
Do weill fall tryumphe in euerie place. 

Say weill to filence fum tyme is bound •, 
Do weill is fre in euerie ftound : 
Say weill hes freindis baith heir and thair ; 
Bot do weill is welcum euerie quhair. 

Say weill mony things in hand dois tak; 

Do weill ane end of them dois mak : 

Quhen fay weill with mony is quyte downe call; 

Do weill is truftie and will ftand raft. 

Say weill him felf will fum tyme auance ; 
Bot do weill dois nouther jet nor paunce: 
Bot do weill dois profite this warld moir, 
Then fay weill and his ane hundreth fcoir. 

Say weill in wordis is wondrous trick ; 
Bot do weill in deidis is nymbill and quick : 
Lord, quick and trick togidder knit, 
And fa fall thay pype ane mirrie fit. 

Say weill, mony will thay be sa kynde ; 
Bot Do weill, few will vnto thair freind : 
May Say weill, than do weill, I tell zow in deid, 
Bot Do weill is mair honefl: in tyme of neid. 

FINIS. 

KNAW 



Knaw ze not God Omnipotent. 183 

KNAW ze not God Omnipotent ; 
He creat man, and maid him fre, 
Quhill he brak his commandement, 

And eit of the forbidden tre : 
Had not that bliffit Barne bene borne, 

Sin to redres, 
Lowreis, zour lyues had bene forlorne 
For all zour Mes. 

Sen we war all to fin made fure, 

Throw Adamis inobedience: 
(Saif Chriil:), thair was na creature 

Maid facrifice for our offence ; 
Thair is na Sanft may faue zour faull 

Fra ze tranfgres, 
Suppois Sanct Peter and Sane! Paull 
Had baith faid Mes. 

Knawing thair is na Chriil: bot ane 

Quhilk rent was on the rude with roddis : 
Quhy giue ye gloir to flock and ftane, 

In worshipping of vther goddis ? 
Thir idoles that on alteris ftandis, 

Ar fenzeitnes. 
Ze gat not God amang zour handis, 
Mumling zour Mes. 

And fen na Sanct zour faull may faue, 
Perchance, ze will fpeir at me than, 
How may the Paip thair pardounis haue 

With power baith of beift and man ? 
Throw nathing bot ane fenzeit faith 
For halynes ; 

M. iiij 



1 84 Knaw ze not God Omnipotent. 

Inuentit wayis to get thame graith, 
Lyke as the Mes. 

Of manage ze maid zow quyte, 

Thinking it thraldome to refraine : 
Wanting of wyiffis is appetyte, 

That curage micht incres againe : 
Thay hony lippis ze did perfew, 

Grew gall, I ges, 
Thinking it was contritioun trew 
To dance ane Mes. 

Giue God was maid of bittis of breid, 

Eit ze nocht ouklie fax or feuin, 
As it had bene ane mortall feid, 

Quhill ze had almaift heryit heuin : 
Als mony Deuillis ze man deuoir, 

Quhill Hell grow les. 
Or doutles we dar nocht reftoir 
Zow to zour Mes. 

Giue God be tranfubftantiall 

In breid with Hoc eft corpus meum y 
Quhy war ze fa vnnaturall 

As tak him in zour teith, and fla him? 
Tripairtit and deuydit him 
At zour dum dres ; 
Bot God knawis how ze gydit him, 
Mumling zour Mes. 

Ze partit with dame Pouertie, 

Tuke Propertie to be zour wyfe ; 
Fra Charitie and Chaftitie 

With 



Knaw %e not God Omnipotent. 1 85 

With licharie ze led zour lyfe : 
That raifit the mother of mifcheif, 

Zour gredynes, 
Beleuing ay to get releif 
For faying Mes. 

O wickit, vaine Veneriens, 

Ze ar not Sanctis (thocht ze feme haly) ; 
Proude poyfonit Epecuriens, 

Quhilk had na God bot zour awin bellie ; 
Beleue ze, lownis, the Lord alio wis 

Zour idilnes ? 
Lang or the fweit cum ouir zour browis 
For faying Mes. 

Had not zour felf begun the weiris, 

Zour flepillis had bene ftandand zit; 
It was the flattering of zour Freiris 

That euer gart San ft Frances flit; 
Ze grew fa fuperftitious, 

In wickitnes, 
It gart vs grow malitious 

Contrair zour Mes. 

Our Bifchoppis ar degenerate 

Thocht thay be mountit vpon mulis, 
With huredome clene effeminate; 

And Freiris oft tymes preuis fulis : 
For Duftifit and Bob at euin, 

Do fa incres, 
Hes dreuin fum of them to teine, 
For all thair Mes. 



1 86 Ane dljpwatioun from vaine luji. 

Chrift keip all faithfull Chriftianis 

From peruerft pryde and Papiftrie : 
God grant thame trew intelligens 
Of his law, word, and veritie : 
God grant thay may thair lyfe amend, 

Syne blis pofTes ; 
Throw faith on Chrift all that depend, 
And nocht on Mes. 

Sen Mes is na thing ellis to fay, 

Bot ane wickit inuentioun, 
Without authoritie or ftay 

Of Scripture or fundatioun : 
Giue Kingis wald Mes to Rome hence dryue, 

With haiftines, 
Suld be the meane to haue belyue 
Ane end of Mes. 

FINIS. 

WAS not Salomon, the king, 
To miferie be wemen brocht? 
Quhilk wifdome out of frame did bring, 

Till he maift wickitly had wrocht : 
A thoufand wemen he did keip, 

Allace, allace! 
Quhilk drownit him in fin fa deip, 

As come to pas. 
Was not Paris maift wickitlie 

Be Venus led to Helenis luft ? 
For quhilk fin and adulterie, 

The plagues of Troy war efter juft : 
The fturdie ftormis he did indure, 

Allace, 



Ane dijpwatloun from valne luji. 187 

Allace, allace! 
His lulling lyfe was nathing fure, 
As come to pas. 

Thocht Troylus CrefTed did enjoy, 

As Paris Helene did lykewife; 
Zit leuit he not lang in Troy, 

Bot that fortoun did him difpife : 
Quha wald then wirk accordinglie, 

Allace, allace! 
Sic plefure bringis miferie, 
As come to pas. 

Thocht Ouid fayne that Leander 

Aduenterit mekill his lufe to gaine : 
Zit dois the poet Menander 

Aduertife vs for to refraine ; 
For lulling lyfe is nathing ftayed, 

Allace, allace! 
Ilk man thairfoir may be afrayed, 
Quhilk is bot gras. 

Quhat fall we fay to Py ramus, 

Sic wretchit wo did him aiTail? 
His end in deid was dolorus, 

Quhen fulifche frenfie did preuaill. 
Quhat wife man wald his faft commend, 

Allace, allace! 
Quhilk brocht his lyfe vnto ane end, 
As come to pas. 

Thocht Hercules for Exionie 
A michtie monfter did fubdew ; 



1 88 Ane diffwatioun from valne lujl. 

TAt endit he in miferie, 

Gif poetis faining may be trew ; 
His minting mate Abderitus, 

Allace, allace! 
Ane deith fuftenit meruellous, 

As come to pas. 
Anaxaretus fum do fay, 

Entifed Iphis outwardlie, 
And than withdrew hir lufe away, 

And he him felf flew wilfullie : 
Traift the vntraiftie quha that will, 

Allace, allace! 
For fie my felf I will not kill 
As his lufe was. 

Thocht Jupiter tranfformit him 

Alcumena for to defile ; 
The fenzeit goddis thay fcornit him 
For lyke offence within a quhyle; 
For quhen he lay in Venus lap, 

Allace, allace! 
Vulcanus tuke him in ane trap, 
As come to pas. 

Thus, bewtie breidis bitternes, 

And bringis baill to mony men ; 
Quha is led be wilfulnes, 

Sail feill the force of bewtie then : 
For fum being taken in the traine, 

Allace, allace! 
Ar led to penurie and paine, 
As come to pas. 

Thocht 



Ane dljfwatloun from valne luji. 189 

Thocht Cato, prince of prudent price, 

In welthie ftate did lang remaine ; 
Zit be the chance of Fortounis dice, 

Mekill miferie he did fuftaine. 
His weddit wyfe did wirk him wo, 

AUace, allace! 
Mekill mair thir beiftis quhilk cum and go, 
Pas and repas. 

Tiberius the empriour, 

Be his wyffis greit adulterie, 
Lofte his pompe and puiffant power, 

Ending his lyfe in miferie. 
Cheis weill thairfoir, leift ze do fay : 

Allace, allace! 
Lat thir and vther[is] at this day, 
Be as thy glas. 

Althocht Marcus Antonius 

Was fene in Cofmographia ; 
Zit was his end maift dolor us, 
Be that fals harlot Fauftina : 
Tak heid, thairfoir, of this be war, 

Allace, allace! 
Be thow not fnaird in Venus fnair, 
In ony cafe. 

Althocht Sextus Tarquinius 

Defylit chaift Lucrefia, 
He, and his father Superbus 

From Rome war banifchit away; 
A juft rewaird for fie offence: 
Allace, allace ! 



190 Ane dijpwatioun from vaine lujl. 

Lyke punifchment for lyke offence, 
Oft cummis to pas. 

Thocht fubtill Sardanapalus, 

A Prince was picht to rewle and reigne ; 
Zit, war his fa&is fa licharus, 

That euerie man micht fe them plaine : 
At Babylon he did defy re, 

Allace, allace! 
To fet the haill Caftell on fyre, 
Quhair brunt he was. 

Ptholomeus Philopater, 

The michtie king of Egypt land, 
Being a michtie conquerer, 

His luft vnto a wenche did ftand; 
His weddit wyfe he put to deith, 

Allace, allace! 
Thus Princes oft do fpend thair braith, 
As come to pas. 

Phifco, lyke wife, the ly chorus, 

Quhilk children be his fifteris had, 
That gat Heliogabalus, 

Quhais lyfe in luft was fpent to bad : 
Defyling mayd and wyfe alfo, 

Allace, allace! 
Harlottis with him micht ryde and go, 
Quhair he did pas. 

Althocht Caius Caligula 

All his awin fifteris did defyle; 
And thocht him felf in quyet flay, 

Poffeffing 



Exampillis takin out of the By bill. 191 

Pofleffing plefure for ane quhyle: 
Zit his men did his deith confpyre, 
• Allace, allace! 
This wretchit man he had his hyre, 
As come to pas. 

Exampillis takin out of the BybilL 

WITH Bybill materis to begin, 
Hifloryis mony we may find, 
How lulling lufe, that laithfum fin, 
The oppin eyis of fum do blind. 
Thocht Sichem Dina had defylde, 

Allace, allace! 
Baith he and Heymor war begylde, 

As come to pas. 
Did not daintie Dalilay 

The michtie Sampfon bring to nocht? 
Quhen he his fecreit heid did wray, 

In Venus fnair fcho had him caucht. 
Did not Apame, in lyke cafe, - 

Allace, allace! 
Straik that greit king vpon the face, 

As come to pas. 
Thocht Ammon did his mynde fulfill 

Upon his filler Thamar deir, 
Zit Abfolon his blude did fpill 

Schortly efter, as dois appeir. 
Thocht Dauid was the Lordis elect, 

Allace, allace! 
With Bethfabe he was infect, 
As come to pas. 



192 Exampillis takin out of the By bill. 

Thocht Holofernes luftit lang, 

To haue to do on Judethis bed; 
His lulling lyfe did happin wrang, 

And fcho did fone ftryke of his heid. 
Quhat wyne and women do zow fe, 

Allace,/allace! 
Walk and wander with modeftie, 
In ony cafe. 

Thocht Judas did with Thamar ly, 

Quhilk was his dochter be the Law; 
The Genefis" dois teftifie, 

Juft Jofephis gude and godlie aw, 
Quhen his lordis wyfe wald him conftraine, 
Allace, allace! 
He maid her purpois haillely vaine, 
As come to pas. 

Of him let vs exampill tak, 

And never think on Cupides dart : 
Venus can rfouther mar nor mak, 

Gif vnto God we joyne our hart; 
And leif this airt of langing luft, 

Allace, allace! 
And in the Lord haue hope and truft, 
Quhilk is and was. 

FINIS. 

ALL my Lufe, leif me not, 
Leif me not, leif me not ; 
All my Lufe, leif me not, 

Thus myne alone : 
With ane burding on my bak, 

I may 



All my Lufe, leif me not. 193 

I may not beir it I am fa waik ; 
Lufe, this burden from me tak, 
Or ellis I am gone. 

With finnis I am ladin foir, 

Leif me not, leif me not ; 
With finnis I am ladin foir, 

Leif me not alone. 
I pray the, Lord, thairfoir 
Keip not my finnis in ftoir, 
Lowfe me or I be forloir, 

And heir my mone. 

With thy handis thow hes me wrocht, 

Leif me not, leif me not ; 
With thy handis thow hes me wrocht, 

Leif me not alone. 
I was fauld, and thow me bocht, 
With thy blude thow hes me coft, 
Now am I hidder focht 

To the, Lord, alone. 

I cry, and I call to the, 

To leif me not, to leif me not ; 
I cry, and I call to the, 

To leif me not alone. 
All thay that ladin be, 
Thow biddis thame cum to the ; 
Than fall thay fauit be, 

Throw thy mercy alone. 

Thow faues all the penitent, 

And leifis them not, and leifis them not; 
N.j 



1 94 All my Lufe^ leif me not. 

Thow faifis all the penitent, 

And leifis thame not allone : 
All that will thair finnis repent 
Nane of thame falbe fchent ; 
Suppofe thy bow be reddy bent, 

Of thame thow killis none. 

Faith, Hope, and Cheritie, 

Leif me not, leif me not ; 
Faith, Hope, and Cheritie, 

Leif me not allone : 
I pray the, Lord, grant me, 
Thir godly giftis thre ; 
Than fall I fauit be, 

Dout haue I none. 

To the Father be all gloir, 

That leifis vs not, that leifis vs not ; 

To the Father be all gloir, 
That leuis vs not allone. 

Sone and Haly Gaift, euer moir, 

As it was of befoir ; 

Throw Chrift our Sauiour, 
We are faif euerie one. 

FINIS. 

Of the Day of Judgment. 

ALL ChrifHn and faithfull in hart, be joyfull ; 
Rejoyce, and mak gude cheir ; 
Be merie and glaid, and be no moir fad, 
The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

Under proteftatioun, with line and correftioun, 

That 



Of the Day of Judgment. 195 

That nane be offendit heir, 
I will fpeik planelie, to rais zour hartis quiklie ; 
The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

All Paipis and Prelatis, and Spirituall eftaitis, 

That thinkis ze haue na peir, 
Caft away zour wairis, zour princelie effairis ; 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

hirdis of Ifrael, heir ze the Lordis bell 
Knelland fail: in zour eir, 

Quhilk biddis in plaine, leue zour triffillis vane ; 
The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

Perfonis that hes cure to preiche vnto the pure, 

Ze haue zour waigis to deir ; 
The layit ze will not teiche, nor zit Goddis word 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. [will preiche ; 

1 will zow exhort, in termis richt fchort, 

Baith Preift, Channoun, Monk, and Freir, 
To flaik of zour fleuth, & fchaw furth the treuth ; 
The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

And ze Brethren all, Ecclefiafticall 

Serue zour Lord God in feir, 
Leue zour ceremony is of zour awin fund gyis ; 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

Zour coiftlie reparationis, zour offeringis and ob- 
Zour curious notis in the queir, [latiounis, 

On the day of dreid, fall ftand in litill fteid, 
Quhen the Lordis fentence drawis neir. 
N. ij 



196 All Chrijlin and FaithfulL 

Princes and kingis that fa ryall ringis, 

That fuld haue all rewle and fteir, 
Do juftice equall, baith to greit and fmall; 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

On the pure Commounis fuffer na oppreffiounis, 

Bot humblie thair plaintis heir, 
With extreme juftice trefpaffouris punifche; 

The day of the Lord is neir. 

Syne with zour fword, let furth Goddis word, 

Our heuinly mirrour cleir, 
And anker zow fure on Haly Scripture ; 

For the day of the Lord drawis neir. 

Erlis, Lordis, and Barrounis, hurt not zour com- 
In body, gudis, nor geir : [mounis, 

Do ze the contrair, zour houfis will miffair-, 
The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

Be trew to the Crowne, defend zour Regioun, 

That zour foirbearis coft fa deir, 
And euer haue eye vnto zour libertie; 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

I cry, in generall, on Spiritual! & Temporall, 

This ledlion that ze leir : 
Remember alwayis, that fchort be zour dayis •, 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

That day fall horribill be, and eik terribill, 

Quhen that juft Judge fall appeir, 
In his birnand ire, to judge the warld with fyre ; 

The 



. 



All Ghriftin and Faith full. 197 



The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

At ane trumpet blaft, we fall be all agaft, 

Heuin, Hell, Eird, fall it heir ; 
Syne ftand befoir the Juge without ony refuge ; 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

We fall giue rekning, of our finfull leuing, 

We haue fpendit in all maneir : 
As we haue deferuit, fa fall we be feruit ; 

The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

That day the faithfull falbe richt joyfull, 
Befoir Chrift quhen thay compeir; 

Bot the vnfaithfull falbe richt wofull, 
Quhen the Lordis fentence drawis neir. 

To vnbeleuaris all, this fentence giue he fall, 

With ire and awfull cheir, 
Pas ze to the Hell, with Deuillis to dwell, 

The Heuin ze fall neuer cum neir. 

The juftfall all ftand, euin at his richt hand, 

Defendit from all dangeir ; 
To quhome he fall fay, richt fweitly that day, 

The fentence quhilk drawis neir. 

Cum heir my elect, and my awin fweit feci, 

Zour hyre fall not be in weir ; 
Baith faull and body, in heuin eternallie, 

Thay fall dwell with me richt neir. 

Quhairfoir, I do call on all men mortall, 
N.iij 



198 Blenk in this Mir r our. 

To ryis and be neuer fweir, 
Bot euer be war of the wofull fnair ; 
The day of the Lord drawis neir. 

Awalk ay, and pray, baith in nicht and day, 

To Chrift, that coft vs all deir, 
To be our Mediatour in that feirfull hour, 

Quhen the day of the Lord drawis neir. 

FINIS. 

BLENK in this Mirrour, man, and mend, 
For heir thow may thy exempill fe ; 
To all mankynde it is weill kend, 

That euer come hidder, that he mon die : 
And fra this dome he may not fle, 
Suppois he haue land and gold to fpend ; 

Array zow all, and reddy be : 
Blenk in this Mirrour, man, and mend. 

Heir is the reffoun, quha lykis to reid, 
This day thow was ane King with croun, 

The morne cummis Deith withouttin dreid, 
Commandis the to his prefoun : 
Richt fuddanely he drawis the doun, 

Thow wait that thow mon with him wend : 
Thairfoir, leif weill, be reddy bowne : 

Blenk in this Mirrour, man, and mend. 

Thair is nane in ftait fa hie, 
Prince, King, nor Empreour, 

Fra this dome ane fute may fle, 
For all his gold and his valour : 
Thairfoir, thow blenk in this Mirrour, 

That 



Blenk in this Mir r our. 199 

That is graciouflie to the fend ; 

Think on the fweit, and als the four : 
Blenk in this Mirrour, man, and mend. 

Behald now to thir men of micht, 

That mekill hes, and wald haue mair, 
And to thair fembling tak gude ficht, 

How that thay pas away fa bair ; 

And fet not by how that we fair, 
That winnis all that thay fpend, 

Richt bufilie baith late and air : 
Blenk in this Mirrour, man, and mend. 

Sen thow wait that thow mon pas, 

And thow wait nouther quhen nor quhair , 
And thy body fall turne in affe, 

That thow now feidis vp fa fair ; 

Confes thy fmnis les and mair 
Unto thy God, or thow hyne wend, 

And till him leyne for euer mair : 
Blenk in this Mirrour, man, and mend. 

FINIS. 

OMAN, ryfe vp, and be not fweir, 
Prepair aganis this gude New Zeir. 
My New Zeir gift thow hes in floir, 
Sen I am he that coft the deir : 
Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

Gif me thy hart, for I fuld haue it ; 
It is my richt, thairfoir I craif it : 

To win the famin, I fufferit foir, 
And now am reddy to reffaue it : 
N. iiij 



200 Man, ryfe vp, and be notfweir. 

Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

I am the Lord maid the of nocht, 
Lyke my awin image hes the wrocht ; 

The to all frelage I did reftoir : 
Sen my hart blude thy hart hes bocht, 

Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

I come in eirth, and thair did dwell, 
I fend na meffage bot my fell, 

The to relief of deidly foir : 
Sen I haue fred the from the hell, 

Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

I haue the fred from all thirlage, 
And hes preparit thyne heritage, 

Quhair deith fall neuer the deuoir : 
And now am cummin to craif my wage ; 

Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

Be war, I am ane jelous God, 
I am na image, ftock nor wod ; 

Thairfoir giue nane of thay my gloir, 
Sen I to heuin mon be the rod : 

Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

Let be thy fculptill honouris vaine, 
Quhilkis ar confoundit and prophaine, 

And fwa ar all dois them adoir, 
As teftifyis Dauid in Scripture plaine : 

Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

Sen this laft zeir thow hes offendit, 

Contrair 



Man^behald this warldis vaniteis. 20 1 

Contrair my law thy lyfe hes fpendit, 
My mercy is reddy zit as of befoir : 

In this New Zeir all may be amendit : 
Gif me thy hart, I afk no moir. 

FINIS. 

OMAN, behald this warldis vaniteis, 
The joy of it I wait is fantafie ; 
Thairfoir be war, my counfell now it is : 
Be glaid in God, for doutles thow mon die. 

Think thow art cum, and wait not quhen to pas ; 

Think thow mon change, & wait not quhair to be: 
Think quhy thow come, & quhat thy erand was : 

Be weill auyfit, for doutles thow mon die. 

Auife the weill, quhill thow hes tyme & fpace, 
Exempill tak daylie, as thow may fe ; 

Quhen deith cummis thair is na vther grace, 
Bot zeild the than, for doutles thow mon die. 

Zeild the to God, with humbill hart contrite, 
In cheritie, lufe as thow wald lufit be ; 

Gif thow wald leif without this warldis defpite, 
Remember on this, for doutles thow mon die 

Remember vpon thy God Omnipotent, 
That is, and was, and euer moir falbe-, 

And for thy fin he faikleflie was fchent ; 
Be kynde againe, for doutles thow mon die. 

Be kynde againe for heuin celeftiall, 

Quhair gloir and joy without end fall be ; 



202 Sen throw Vertew increjjis dignitie. 

Be kynde, and dreid the cruell paine of hell ; 
Cheis thee the ane, for doubtles thow mon die. 

FINIS. 

SEN throw Vertew increffis dignitie, 
And vertew is flour and rate of Nobles ay, 
Of ony wit, or quhat eftait thow be, 

His fteppis follow, and dreid for none effray : 
Eject vice, and follow treuth alway; 
Lufe maift thy God that firft thy lufe began, 
And for ilk inche he will the quyte ane fpan. 

Be not ouir proude in thy profperitie, 
For as it cummis, fa will it pas away ; 

The tyme to compt is fchort, thow may weill fe, 
For of grene grefs fone cummis wallowit hay. 
Labour in treuth, quhilk fuith is of thy fay ; 

Traift maift in God, for he beft gyde the can, 

And for ilk inche he will the quyte ane fpan. 

Sen word is thrall, and thocht is only fre, 

Thow dant thy toung, that power hes and may, 

Thow fteik thy ene fra warldis vanitie : 
Refraine thy luft, and harkin quhat I fay. 
Graip or thow flyde, and keip furth the hie way, 

Thow hald the faft upon thy God and man, 

And for ilk inche he will the quyte ane fpan. 

FINIS. 

Quod King James the Firft. 



THE TABILL 



A. 

ALL meit and drink was creat 
All Chriftin men tak tent and leir 
Allace, that fame fweit face 
At the Riuers of Babylon 
All my hart, ay this is my fang 
Allone I weip in greit diftres . 
All pepill leirne of me 
Allace, vnkyndlie, Chrift we haue exilit 
All my Lufe, leif me not 
All Chriftin and faithfull 

B. 

BLISSIT is he quhome God dois correct 
Be blyith, all Chriftin men, and fmg 
Blis, bliffit God .... 
Bliffiing, gloir, wifdome 
BliiTit ar thay that fit in Goddis dreid 
Baneift is faith now euerie quhair 
Blenk in this Mirrour, man, and mend 

C. 

CHRIST baptift was be Johne . 
Cum heir, fayis Goddis Sone to me 
Chrift gaue him felf to deid 
Chrift, thow art the licht 
Chrift is the onlie Sone of God 
Chrift Jefus is ane A per C 



16 

22 

56 

99 
121 

129 

137 
161 
192 
194 



40 

65 
66 

"3 

i55 
198 

12 

25 

52 

126 

127 

128 



204 The Tab ill. 



D 



D. 
OWNE be zone Riuer I ran . .147 



. E. 

T^XCEPT the Lord with vs . . 97 

F. 

FAITHFVLL in Chrift, vfe zour riches 35 

Fra deip, O Lord, I call to the . . 98 

For lufe of one I mak my mone . . 1 14 

For our Gude-man in heuin dois ring . 173 



GIF ze haue riffin from deid againe . 69 
God, for thy grace, thow keip no more 90 
Greuous is my forrow . . . -132 
Go, hart, vnto the Lamp of licht . . 142 
God fend euerie Preift ane wyfe . .165 

H. 

HELP, God, the formar of all thing . 37 
Hay, let vs fing, and mak greit mirth 61 
Haue mercy on me, God of micht . .104 

Hay now, the day dallis . . .168 

I. 

I COME from Heuin to tell . . . 43 

In dulce jubilo ..... 47 

I call on the, Lord Jefus Chrift . . 57 

In Burgh and Land .... 62 

I will the loue, my gracious Lord and King 1 00 



The Tahiti. 205 

In till ane mirthfull Maij morning . .120 

Johne, cum kis me now . • . -138 

I am wo for thir wolfis fa wylde . . 159 



K 



K. 

NAW ze not God Omnipotent . 183 



L. 

LORD God, thy face and word of grace 48 

Lord, let thy feruand now depart . 5 1 

Lord, Father, God that gaif me lyfe . 65 

Let vs rejoyce and fing . . . • 73 

Lord, let me neuer be confoundit . . 1 41 



M. 

MOYSES vpon the Mont Sinay 
My lufe murnis for me 
My Saull dois magnifie the Lord 
Mufing greitlie in my mynde 
Mufing greitlie in my mynde 



N 



o. 

OVR Father God Omnipotent . 
Our Sauiour Chrift, King of grace 
Onlie to God on heich 
Of mercy zit he paffis all 
Of thingis twa I pray the, Lord 



6 

122 
125 

i55 



N. 
OW let vs fing, with joy and mirth . 66 



io 
15 
47 

59 
64 



206 The Tabill. 

O Lord, how lang for euer will thow forzet 78 
O Lord, quha fall in heuin dwell with the 78 

O Lord, aduert vnto my voyce . . .86 

O God, be mercyfull to vs . . .119 

Our Brother let vs put in graue . 143 

O Chrift, quhilk art the licht of day . . 15 1 

Of the fals fyre of Purgatorie . . 163 

O Man, ryfe vp, and be not fweir . .199 

O Man, behald this warldis vaniteis . .201 

P. 

PRAY God for grace, my lufe maift . 146 

Preiftis in Chrift beleue . . .170 

& 

QVHA can difcriue or put in write . 68 

Quha fuld my melodie amend . . 72 
'^ mf Quhat is the caus, O God omnipotent 74 

Quha on the Hieft will depend . . 92 

Quhen fra Egypt departit Ifraell . . 95 

Quho is at my windo ? quho . . .116 

R. 

RICHT foirly mufmg in my mynde . 54 

Richt foir oppreft I am . . . 55 

Remember, Man . . . . .175 

S. 

SORE I complaine of Sin . . 19 

Sinners, vnto my fang aduert . . 30 

Saif vs, gude Lord . . . .76 

Say weill is throuchly a worthie . . 181 
Sen throw Vertew .... 202 



The Tabill. 



207 



T. 

TO vs is borne ane barne of blis . 45 

Till Chriit, quhome I am haldin . 52 

The grace of God appeiris now . . 63 

The Lord is my Pallor . . . .79 

Thow fall not follow . . . .83 

Till trew in hart God of Ifrael . . 88 

The Hethin folk, Lord . . . . 10 1 

Tell me now, and in quhat wife . . 123 

The Lord fayis, I will fchaw . . .129 

The Bifchop of Hely brak his neck . 158 

The wind blawis cauld . . . .166 

The Paip, that pagane full of pryde . .178 

W. 

WE trow in God allanerlie . ■ 9 
We thank the God, of thy gudnes . 18 

We wretchit fmneris pure . . .21 
We fuld into remembrance ... 60 
We fuld beleue in God abufe ... 63 

With heuie hart full of diftres . .148 

Welcum, Lord Chriil: . . .150 

With huntis vp 1 53 

Wo is the Hirdis of Ifraell . . .164 

Was not Salomon, the king . . .186 

With Bybill materis . . . .191 

Y. Z. 

"yfE Richteous, rejoyce . . .81 

FINIS. 



I 




R 



NOTES AND GLOSSARY. 



NOTES. 




T is stated in the Preface that we have no 
information when this collection of " Godlie 
Ballates" originally appeared. That any 
edition was printed in Scotland prior to 
1560 is extremely unlikely; but wherever 
it was first printed, it was probably enlarged by Henry 
Charteris, in 1569 or 1570, with an "augmentation," as the 
title of 1578 expresses it, "of sindrie Gude and Godlie 
Ballatis, not contenit in the first editioun." But this is 
mere conjecture. The earliest intimation of the book in a 
printed form occurs in the passage quoted, supra, p. xlvii., 
from James Melville's Diary, under the year 15 70. He was 
then a scholar at Montrose, and speaks of his great delight 
when a travelling chapman or carrier (whom he calls 
a post), among other novelties from Edinburgh, brought 
him a copy of " Wedderburn's Songs." But no copy 
of that edition has reached our times. As for the words, 
"augmentation," &c. repeated on the titles, it was not 
unusual for the old Scottish printers to retain such an 
intimation, although the edition was a mere reprint of one 
of a previous date. 



[ 212 ] 

Of the edition now reprinted, the identical copy appears 
in the Sale Catalogue of Sir James Mackenzie's Library, 
. sold by auction at Edinburgh in 1746, when it may have 
been bought by John Maule, one of the Barons of Ex- 
chequer, as it has his book-plate and autograph. His 
books were disposed of by auction at Edinburgh in 1782 ; 
but the volume was lost sight of, until it was accidentally 
acquired by Mr Thomas Jolley, an English collector, 
probably for a small sum, in one of his annual commercial 
visits to Scotland and Ireland. The title-page is mutilated 
at the front margin, and it wants two leaves of the Calen- 
dar and the last leaf of the Table. At the sale of his ex- 
tensive collection, it was purchased at an extravagant price 
for the late William Henry Miller, Esq. of Craigentinny, 
and is now in the library at Brit well, Buckinghamshire. 

The Almanack, for nine years from 1578 (which fixes 
the date), and Calendar, are not contained in the later 
editions. The two leaves, with the months of January 
and February — July and August, being deficient in the 
original, have been supplied chiefly from the Calendars pre- 
fixed to the old Psalm Books of that date. 

The next edition known to be extant is that of 1600, of 
which a fac-simile title is given on the opposite page. 
This volume is a small 8vo, in black letter, signatures A 
to O in eights. I have not had any recent opportunity of 
collating it, but it corresponds very closely with that of 
1 62 1. In both editions, the orthography of 1578 is some- 
what modernised. 




ANE 

contpentitus 

Butfe of <3oUy attti &$U 
rttuali g>attgtsu 

Colle[c]tit out of funotpe partes of ttje 

§mptute,toft{j funovpe MtljtxIBaU 

lattss rtjangeit out of pvonfjaine fan* 

gij3 in goDlp fangis, fov auon* 

ding of fin anD ijatlatvp, toitlj 

augmentation of (gnaty 

guDe i$ goDlp nallatis 

not rontenit in ttje 

fivfl Coition. 

Exa6tly corredtit and newlye 
Prented at Edinbrugh be Ro- 
bert Smyth dwelling at 
the nether bow. 1600. 



[ 214 ] 

Herbert, in his enlarged edition of Ames, mentions the 
book as having been first printed at Edinburgh in 1597, 
in small 8vo. He gives no reference for his authority, and 
the date may have been mistaken for 1567. No such edi- 
tion at least is known; and notwithstanding diligent re- 
search of more than half a century, when such books have 
been so eagerly sought after, and fetching high prices, only 
one copy of Smyth's edition of 1600, and two of Hart's 
of 1 62 1, have yet been discovered. Many years ago, I 
obtained a fragment of an edition, smaller, I think, in size, 
than either of these, but, unluckily, I cannot ascertain 
what became of the leaves. 

The copy of the 1600 edition, at the Duke of Rox- 
burghe's sale in 18 12, fetched £21 ; and it was resold 
with the library of George Chalmers in 1842, when it was 
bought for £15 for the Rev. Thomas Corser, Rector of 
Stand, Manchester. 

Mr Corser, in his valuable collection of early poetical 
literature, also possesses the copy of Hart's edition 1621, 
with the date cut off. This copy formerly belonged to 
an old Edinburgh collector, George Paton, at whose sale, 
in March 1809, it sold for £6, 18s. In Bright's sale, 
one, described as imperfect, fetched £11, ios.5 while an- 
other copy of Hart's 1621 edition, at the sale of the Rev. 
John Brand's Library in May 1807, only produced £4, 4s. 
If I mistake not, Mr George Chalmers received in ex- 
change from Mr Constable the 1600 edition, already men- 
tioned, for that of 1621, which was transferred to the 
Advocates Library. It is in blue morocco, with the Rox- 
burghe arms impressed on the side, which renders it pro- 
bable that the Duke, on acquiring the earlier edition, had 
given away or exchanged this as a duplicate. 



ANE 

COMPENDIOVS 

BOOKE, OF GODLY 

AND SPIRITVALL SONGS 

Colle6lit out of fundrie partes of the Scripture, 
with fundrie of other Ballates changed out of 
prophaine fanges, for avoyding of fmne and 
harlotrie, with augmentation of fundrie gude 
and godly Ballates, not contained in the firft 
Edition. 

Newlie corrected and amended by 
the firft originall Copie. 




Edinbvrgh, 
Printed by A ndroHart. 1621, 



[ 216 ] 






The two collections of German Psalms and Hymns, 
from which I have given a few selections in the following 
Notes, are entitled : 

i. Kirchengesanng Teutsch vnd Lateinisch, dauon in 
Newburgischer vnd Zweybruckischer gleichformiger Kir- 
chenordnung meldung geschicht. M.D.LXX. — Gedruckt 
zu Nurmberg, durch Dieterich Gerlatz. (Subjoined to 
Hertzog Wolffgangs (von Baiern's) Kirchenordnung) 
folio. 

2. Das Deutsche Kirchenlied von Martin Luther bis 
auf Nicolaus Herman und Ambrosius Blaurer, von Dr. 
K. E. P. Wackernagel. Stuttgart, 1841, royal 8vo. 



[ 2I 7 ] 



NOTES. 



" The Lamentation of a Sinner," Lord, in Thee is all 
my trust. These verses are omitted in the later editions 
of the Godlie Ballates. It was one of the Hymns subjoined 
to the metrical version of the Psalms by Sternhold and 
Hopkins, when completed in 1562. It is not unlikely, as 
suggested by Wart on, that William Whittingham may 
have been the author. 1 Whittingham was Knox's col- 
league, both at Frankfort and Geneva. 2 In 1563 he ob- 
tained the Deanery of Durham, and died in 1579. 

In the editions of the Psalms printed in England, only the 
first, second, and sixth verses are given, with the music, and 
the following rubric : — " Through perfect repentance, the 
sinner hath a sure trust in God that his sinnes shall be 
washed away in Christe's blood." On the other hand, in 
nearly all the editions of the Psalms in metre, " according 
to the form used in the Kirk of Scotland," from the one 
printed at Edinburgh by Thomas Bassandyne, 1575, to 
that by Robert Bryson, 1644, the six verses occur with 
the same music, and the above rubric. 

In the rare edition of the English Psalms, harmonized 
in four parts, and printed at London by John Daye, the 
tune is given with the name of M. Tallis. 

Page 3. In Hart's edition, 1621, the word " Followes" 
is prefixed to the two titles on this page. 

1 History of English Poetry. 2 Knox's Works, vol. iv. p. 5, &c. 



2l8 Notes. 

Page 9, line n. "Of our Beleif." The title in edit. 
1 621 is, " Followes of our Creid." The word " Followes" 
is joined in that edition with most of the titles in the 
earlier part of the collection. In the present version of 
the Creed, the third stanza, p. 10, has only nine lines, in- 
stead of eleven. The lines wanting apparently are 6 and 9. 
Page 10, line 11. "The Lordis Prayer," is given as a 
title in edit. 1621. 

Page 12. " Of our Baptisme." Christ baptist was be 
Johne in Jordan Jiude. This is a version of Luther's hymn, 
" Ein geistlich lied, Von vnser heiligen Tauffe." It begins: 
Christ vnser Herr zum Jordan kam, 

nach seines Vaters willen, 
Von S. Johans die Tauffe nam, 

sein werck vnd ampt zur fiilien. 
Da wolt er stifften vns ein bad 
zu waschen vns von siinden, 
Erseuffen auch den bittern tod, 

durch sein selbs blut vnd wunden, 
Es gait ein newes leben. 
Wackernagel, No. 218, gives it entire in seven stanzas 
from the Wittenberg Gesangbuche, 1543 ; an d so it appears 
in the Appendix to Professor's Mitchell's Lecture, which 
shows that the third, ninth, and tenth of Wedderburn's 
stanzas had been taken from a different copy. 

Page 15. "The Supper of the Lord." Our Saviour 
Christ, King of grace. This is taken from Luther's German 
translation of the Latin hymn by John Huss. It extends 
to ten verses, and begins : 

Jesus Christus, vnser Heiland, 
der von vns den Gottes zorn wand, 



Notes. 219 

Durch das bitter leiden sein, 
halff er vns aus der Hellen pein. 
Wackernagel gives it as No. 194 from the Erfiirdt 
Euchiridion, 1524; and Professor Mitchell prints it (p. 
5 7) alongside of Wedderburn's translation. 

I prefer to give, for its beautiful cadence, and as supe- 
rior to the translations, the original Latin hymn by John 
Huss. He is said to have also composed the tune, which 
was so much admired by Luther : 

Carmen quoddam Joannis Hus, 
de Ccena Domini. 
1. 
Jesus Christus nostra salus, 
Quod reclamat omnis malus, 
Nobis in sui memoriam, 
Dedit hanc panis hostiam. 

2. ; 
O quam sanctus panis iste, 
Tu solus es Jesu Christe, 
Caro, cibus, Sacramentum, 
Quo non majus est inventum. 

3- 
Hoc donum suavitatis, 
Charitasque Deitatis, 
Virtutis Eucharistia, 
Communionis gratia. 

4- 
Ave Deitatis forma, 
Dei unionis Norma, 
In te quisque delectatur, 
Qui te fide speculatur. 



220 Notes. 

5- 
Non est panis, sed est Deus, 
Homo liberator meus, 
Qui in Cruce pependisti, 
Et in carne defecisti. 

6. 
Non augetur consecratus, 
Nee consumptus fit mutatus, 
Nee divisus in fractura, 
Plenus Deus in statura. 

7- 
Esca digna Angelorum, 
Pietatis Lux sanctorum, 
Lex moderna approbavit, 
Quod antiqua figuravit. 

8. 
Salutare medicamen, 
Peccatorum relevamen, 
Pasce nos, a malis leva, 
Due nos, ubi est lux tua. 

9- 
Caro, panis, sanguis, vinum, 
Est mysterium divinum, 
Huic laus et gloria, 
In see'lorum secula. Amen. 1 

Page 15, line 23. Repent and s air: in edition 1621, Re- 
pentand fore. 

1 Historise et Monumentorum Joannis Hus atque Hieronymi Pragensis. 
Novmberge7iseni 1715, folio, vol. ii. p. 520. 



Notes. 221 

Page 17, line ax. For Kingdom, Sec. After this line 
the edition 1621 has this Conclusion: 

" For ay. Amen. Lat it be sa ever, we Thee pray." 
And line 28 is followed by the words, Say the Lordis 
Prayer, above written, befoir Supper. 

Page 18, line 12. [Deo Gratias]. We thank thee God, 
of Thy gudnes. This grace is from the German of Nicolas 
Boie, beginning : 

O Godt, wy dancken dyner glide 
dorch Christum vnsen Heren. 
Wackernagel, No. 453, gives it from the Magdeburg 
Hymn Book, 1543 : an d also in Professor Mitchell's Lec- 
ture, p. 59- 
Page 18, after line 7. The edition 1621 has the words, 
Say the Lordis Prayer, or ane part of the Catechisme, efter 
Supper. 

Page 19. " Ane Confession of Sin." Sore I Complaine 
of Sin. In the edition 1621 the title reads " Followes 
Spirituall Sangis, and ane Confessioun of Sin, with ane 
Prayer. Line 12, vyle, is <vyld. 

The first three verses of this Confession, along with some 
other u Godlie Ballates," not included in the present col- 
lection, formed the fly-leaves of an old volume of the Kirk- 
session Records of Inverness. The volume contains the 
register from 1604 to 161 6. For a transcript of the reli- 
gious verses, or "ballatis," in their present mutilated state, 
I was indebted some years ago to the Rev. Hew Scott, 
D.D., author of the " Fasti Ecclesise Scoticanae." 

Page 21. " Ane Sang of our Corrupt Nature," &c. We 
wretchit sinners pure. These verses would read better, by 
having the third and sixth lines of each stanza divided into 



222 Notes. 

short lines, for the sake of the metre. This is from the 
German hymn by Hermann Bonn, which begins : 

Och wy armen sunders! 

vnse missedadt, 

Dar wy ynne entfangen 

vnd gebaren sint. 

Hefft gebracht vns alle 

yn sblcke grote nodt, 

Dat wy vnderworpen sint 

dem ewigen dod. 

Kyrieleyson, Christeleyson, Kyrieleyson! 
printed by Wackernagel, No. 451, from the Magdeburg 
Geystliche Leider vnd Psalmen, 1543 ; an d by Professor 
Mitchell, p. 59. 

Page 22. " Ane Sang of the Flesche and the Spreit." All 
Christin men tak tent and leir. The author of this poetical 
dispute or controversy was Hans Witzstat von Wer- 
theim. It occurs as No. 276 in Wackernagel, with the 
title, "Der geystlich Buchsbaum, Von dem streyte des 
Fleysches wider den Geyst," and at p. 61 of Professor 
Mitchell's Lecture. Of a still earlier date, the Wedder- 
burns might have found poems of a similar cast in the 
"Ressoning betwixt Aige and Yowth," or the "Ressoning 
betwixt Deth and Man," by Henryson, or in "The Merle 
and the Nychtingaill," by Dunbar. 

This poem, "Ane Sang of the Flesche and the Spreit," 
and those in the preceding pages of the Godlie Bailates, 
are given as the "Metrical Catechism," by the Rev. 
Dr H. Bonar, in the Appendix to his valuable collection 
of "Catechisms of the Scottish Reformation," Lond. 
1866, post 8vo, pages 301-323. Whether under this title 



Notes. 223 

we should recognise an early printed edition mentioned 
by Ames in his Typographical Antiquities, 1749, p. 585, 
but of which no copy has been discovered, I will not pre- 
tend to say. Calvin's Catechism, in prose, was often re- 
printed. The title, as given by Ames, may be quoted. 

"The Catechisme in two partes; the first in Scotch 
poetry, having a kalender before it. The second part in 
Latin and Scottis prose, entituled, Catechismus ecclesiae 
Geneuensis, hoc est, formula erudiendi pueros in doctrina 
Christi. Authore Johanne Calvino. Ubi colloquuntur 
praeceptor, et discipulus, vel minister, et puer. If The 
Catechisme, or maner to teiche children the Chris- 
tiane religioun. Wherein the minister demandeth the 
questioun, and the chylde maketh answer ; made by the 
excellent doctour and pastour in Christis kirk, Johne 
Calvin. The first question is, Quhat is the principal and 
cheif end of mannis Lyfe ? The chyld : To knaw God. 
Edinburgh. Imprinted by John Ross, for Henrie Char- 
teris, 1574." i2mo. 

Page 25. " Ane Sang of the Croce." Cum heir, sayis 
Goddis sone to me. Another composition by the same 
author, Hans Witzstat von Wertheim. Wackernagel, 
No. 275, gives two different sets, 

Kompt her zu mir, spricht Gottes Son, 
with considerable variations ; the second of these is con- 
tained in Professor Mitchell's Appendix, p. 64. 

Page 26, line 24. " Gais out his end" (edit. 1621.) 

Page 27, line 1. "Than sa unthankfullie deceist " 
(edit. 1621.) 

Page 27, line 5. Thocht ane, &c. In the old copies, 
the two lines that follow are evidently transposed, as both 



224 Notes. 

the sense and the metrical arrangement require that they 
should read thus — 

Thocht ane had all this warld sa wyde, 
With golde, and precious stanis of pryde, 
Yit he sail die, with dule and pyne. 
Page 28, line 4. " And quhen this schort pyne do you 
greif " (edit. 1621.) 

Page 29, line 8. Said is a mistake for sad; and perse'vir 
in the next line should have been corrected perseveir. 
Page 35, line 28. "And syne efter" (edit. 1621.) 
Page 36, line 14. " Wrytes Esay" (edit. 1621.) 
Page 37. "The principal pointis of the Passion," &c. 
Help, God, the former of all things. From the German 

" Hilff, Gott, das mir gelinge." 
It has thirteen stanzas. The last two lines, which men- 
tion the author's name, are not translated, 
13. Recht last vns alle bitten 
Christum fur oberkeit, 
Ob wir schbn von in lidten 
gewalt, auch fur all feind, 

Das in Gott woll genedig sein : 
Hat Heinrich Muller gesungen 
in dem gefengnis sein. 
See Wackernagel, No. 294. In place of these lines, it 
will be seen that Wedderburn has simply 
In prison, for the Veritie, 
Ane faithfull Brother maid this Sang. 
Professor Mitchell, who gives the entire hymn, adds 
this note: "As stated in this last verse, Henry Muller 
was the author of this hymn, and composed it while in 
prison. His name is left out in the Scottish version, and 






Notes. 225 

Sir J. Dalyell seems to have supposed the reference in it 
was to the imprisonment of the Scottish poet. The Ger- 
man appears first in the Magdeburg Hymn Book of 
1540," (p. 70.) — It was quite natural, however, from the 
above words, to draw such an inference. 

Page 39, line 4. "Him" is here repeated by mistake. 
Page 40. " Ane Sang of the Euangell," &c. Be blyitk 
all Chrhtin men, and sing. The original hymn by Luther 
begins 

Ny freud euch, lieben Christen g'mein, 

vnd lasst vns frolich springen ; 
Das wir getrost vnd all in ein 

mit lust vnd liebe singen ; 
Was Gott an vns gewendet hat, 
Vnd seine susse wunderthat, 
Gar thewr hat er's erworben. 
It consists of ten seven-line stanzas — (See it in Wacker- 
nagel, No. 184, and in Professor Mitchell's Lecture, p. 
70). It has more than once been translated into English; 
and is reckoned to have been the first hymn which Luther 
published in 1534. 

Page 42, line 20. "Saif thou man bee" (edit. 1621.) 
Page 43. " Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ, to be 
sung with the tune of Balulalow." In the edition i6ai, 
" with the tune of Baw lulalaw." I come from Heuin to 
tell. This may be called a literal translation of Luther's 
celebrated Christmas Carol or Hymn for Christmas Eve. 
Each of them contains 15 four-line stanzas. It forms No. 
214 in Wackernagel, and is also printed in full by Profes- 
sor Mitchell, p. 25. The first three may be quoted as a 
specimen of the versification, 
p 



226 Notes. 

Ein Kinder lied, auff die Weihenachten, 

'vom Kindlein Jhesu. 
Von Himel hoch da kom ich her, 
Ich bring euch gute newe mehr, 
Der guten mehr bring ich so viel, 
Dauon ich singen vnd sagen will. 

Euch ist ein Kindlein heut geborn, 
Von einer Jungfraw auserkorn, 
Ein Kindelein so zart vnd fein, 
Das soil ewr freud vnd wonne sein. 

Es ist der Herr Christ vnser Gott, 

Der will euch ftirn auss aller not, 

Er will ewr Heiland selber sein, 

Von alien sunden machen rein. (Fol. xlvi.) 

The same verses from Miss Winckworth's translation 
may also be quoted. She says this carol or hymn was 
written (in 1535) by Luther, for "his little boy Hans, 
when the latter was five years old, and it is still sung from 
the dome of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden before day-break 
on the morning of Christmas day. It refers to the custom 
then and long afterwards prevalent in Germany, of making 
at Christmas-time representations of the manger with the 
infant Jesus." — (Lyra Germanica, p. x.) 

From heaven above to earth I come 
To bear good news to every home; 
Glad tidings of great joy I bring, 
Whereof I now will say and sing : 

To you this night is born a child 
Of Mary, chosen mother mild ; 



Notes. 227 

This little child, of lowly birth, 
Shall be the joy of all your earth. 
'Tis Christ our God, who far on high, 
Hath heard your sad and bitter cry ; 
Himself will your Salvation be, 
Himself from sin will make you free. 
Page 45, line 10. " Sail I bow" (edit. 1621.) 
Page 45. [A Christmas Sang.] To us is born a Barne 
of bliss. Wackernagel, No. 666, includes this among the 
productions of unknown authors, "Unbekannte Dichter," 
from the Strassburg Psalter, 1539. Professor Mitchell 
also prints it in his Lecture, p. 25. It begins : 

Ein Gesang auff Weihennachten. 
Ein kindelin so lobenlich 
ist vns geboren heute, 
Von einer Jungfraw seiberlich 

zii trost vns armen leute. 
Wer vns das kindlin nicht geborn 
So weren wir all z'mal verlorn, 
das heil ist vnser alien ! 
Oy du siisser Jesu Christ, 
Das du mensch geboren bist, 
Behiit vns vor der hellen. 
Page 47. "In dulci jubilo." In all the editions of the 
Godly Ballads this is inaccurately printed in duke; and 
the next line has in principio, an evident typographical mis- 
take for, inprxsepio (in the manger or stable). The lines 
also run on, giving it a very unintelligible appearance. I 
have followed the form of the original. 

This strange mixture of two languages is an exact 



228 Notes. 

translation, in the same style, of the old German hymn 
which belongs to the fifteenth century. Wackernagel has 
given it in two different forms, in Nos. 125 and 791. The 
latter, he says, is from the " Geistlichen Liedern, gedruckt 
zu Wittemberg, 1535," and is similar to the following 
copy, taken from the Nuremberg collection, printed in 
1570:— 

Ein ander altes Weihenachten Lied (or, another old Song 

or Carol for Christmas Eve). 

In dulci jubilo, 
Nun singet vnd seid fro, 
Vnsers hertzen wunne, 
Leit in praesepio, 
Vnd leuchtet als die Sonne, 
Matris in gremio, 
Alpha es & O ; Alpha es & O. 

O Jesu paruule, 
Nach dir ist mir so weh, 
Trost mir mein gemiite, 

O Puer optime, 
Durch alle deine giite 
O Princeps glorias, 
Trahe me post te ; Trahe me post te. 

O Patris charitas, 
O Nati lenitas, 
Wir weren all verloren, 
Per nostra crimina. 
So hat er vns erworben, 
Ccelorum gaudia, 
Eia wer wir da ; Eia wer wir da. 



Notes. 229 



Vbi sunt gaudia, 
Nirgend mehr denn da, 
Da die Engel singen, 
Noua Cantica, 
Vnd die Schellen klingen 
In Regis curia, 
Eia wer wir da; Eia wer wir da. (Fol. xlix.) 

Another and similar Song on the Nativity in Latin and 
German occurs in the Nuremberg volume, 1570, fol. 50. 
It begins : 

Puer natus in Bethlehem, in Bethlehem 

Ein kind geborn zu Bethlehem, zu Bethlehem. 

Unde gaudet Jerusalem, Halle Halleluia ! 

des frewet sich Jerusalem, Halle Halleluia ! 

Hie jacet in praesepio, prassepio, 

Hie light er in dem Krippelein, Krippelein, 

Qui regnat sine termino, Halle Halleluia ! 

On ende ist die Herschafft sein, Halle Halleluia! 

Line 7. "Alpha es et O," or Omega, the first and last 
letters of the Greek Alphabet. In the words of Scripture : 
" I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending." 
(Revel, ch. i. v. 8.) — " I am Alpha and Omega, the first 
and the last" — (lb. v. 13). See also ch. xxi. v. 6. 

Page 47. [Gloria in excelsis Deo.] Onlie to God on 

theich, be gloir. The author of the German original was 
Nicolaus Decius, and it appeared in the " Geystliche Leider 
vnd Psalmen," at Magdeburg, 1540. It is here copied 
from Wackernagel, No. 420. 

Allein Gott inn der hohe sey ehr, 
Vnd danck fur seine gnade, 



230 Notes. 

Darumb das nu vnd nimermehr 

Vns ruren kan eine schade ! 
Ein wolgefallen Gott an vns hat, 
Nu ist gros fried on vnterlas, 

All fehde hat nu ein ende. 

Wir loben, preisen, anbeten dich 
Fur deine ehre, wir dancken, 

Das du, Gott Vater, ewiglich 
Regierest on alles wancken. 

Gantz vngemessen ist deine macht, 

Fort g'schicht, was dein will hat erdacht, 
Wol vns des feinen Herren ! 

O Jhesu Christ, Son eingeborn 

Deines himlischen Vaters, 
Versoner der, die warn verlorn, 

Du stiller vnsers haders. 
Lam Gottes, heiliger Herr vnd Gott 
Nim an die bitt von vnser noth 

Erbarm dich vnser, Amen ! 

O heiliger Geist, du grostes gut, 

Du aller heilsampst Troster; 
Furs Teuffells g'walt fort an behut 

Die Jhesus Christ erloset 
Durch grosse marter vnd bittern tod ! 
Abwend all vnsern jamer vnd noth, 

Dazu wir vns verlassen. 

The translation by Coverdale may also be quoted for 
comparison. He certainly exhibits less skill than Wedder- 
burn in versification. 



Notes. 2 3 I 

Gloria in excelsis Deo. 
To God the hyghest be glory alwaye, 

For his great kyndnesse and mercy ; 
That doth provide both nyght and daye 

Both for oure soule and oure body. 
To mankynde hath God great pleasure 

Now is great peace everywhere ; 
God hath put out all emmyte. 

Ad Patre?n. 
We love and prayse and honoure the, 

For thy great glory ; we thanke thy grace, 
That thou, God, Father eternally, 

Art oure defender in every place. 
Thou art to us a mercyfull Father, 

And we thy chyldren altogether ; 
Therefore we geve the thankes alwayes. 

Ad Filium. 
O Jesu Christ, thou onely Sonne, 

Of God Almyghty thy heavenly Father, 
Our full and whole redempcyon. 

Thou that hast stilled God's displeasure; 
O God's Lambe, thou takest synne awaye, 

When we have nede, helpe us alwaye ; 
Graunt us thy mercy altogether. 

Ad Spiritum Sanctum, 
O Holy Ghost, our confortoure 

In all oure trouble and hevynesse ; 
Defende us all from Sathan's power, 

Whome Christ hath bought from wofulnesse; 



232 Notes. 

Kepe oure hertes in the verite, 

In oure tentacyon stonde us by, 
And strength alwaye oure weake bodies. 1 
Page 48. "Of the greit louing and blyithnes of Goddis 
word." Lord God, thy face and word of grace. This hymn 
should be printed in short lines, thus — 
Lord God, thy face 
and word of grace 
Hes lang been hid be craft of men ; 
Quhill at the last 
the nicht is past, 
And we full weill thair falset ken. 
It is evidently founded upon a German hymn, contained 
in the Gesangbuch, printed at Wittenberg, '1535. As 
Goverdale has given a more literal translation in seven 
stanzas, the first three may be quoted for comparison, 
arranged in short lines for the rhyme : 
O Hevenly Lorde, 
thy godly worde 
Hath longe bene kepte alwaye from us ; 
But thorow thy grace, 
now in oure dayes, 
Thou hast shewed the so plenteous, 
That very well 
we can now tell 
What thy Apostles have written al ; 
And now we se 
thy worde openly 
Hath geven Anthyechrist a great fall. 

1 Works of Bishop Coverdale, p. 564. Camb. 1846. Parker Society. 



Notes. 233 

It is so cleare, 

as we may heare, 
No man by ryght can it deny, 

That many a yeare 

thy people deare 
Have bene begyled perlously 

With men Spirituall, 

as we them call, 
But not of thy Spirite truly: 

For more carnall 

are none at all, 
Than many of these spirites be. 

They have been ever 

sworne altogether, 
Theyr owne lawes for to kepe alwaye : 

But, mercyfull Lorde, 

of thy swete worde 
There durst no man begynne to saye. 

They durst them call 

great heretikes all, 
That dyd confesse it stedfastly ; 

For they charged, 

it shulde be hyd, 
And not be spoken of openly. 

The original German, " Vom Evangelischen Glauben," 
of eight stanzas of eight lines, has been ascribed to Paulus 
Speratus; but Wackernagel, No. 637, classes it with 
others by unknown writers (" Lieder von Unbekannten 
Dichtern.") It begins — 



234 Notes. 

O Herre Gott, dein Gottlich wort 
ist lang verdunkelt blieben. 

Professor Mitchell, at p. 73, gives the first, third, and 
fourth verses of Wedderburn's, with the same in German ; 
and at p. 39, the second and third verses, with the simi- 
lar version by Coverdale, remarking that " it is a trans- 
lation which breathes quite as kindly and compassionate a 
spirit towards the deluded Papists as the original, and dis- 
plays a tone and temper considerably different from that 
which even Coverdale has managed to throw into his ver- 
sion of the same hymn." 

Page 52. " Ane Sang of the Resurrection." Christ 
gaue htm self to deid. This appears to have been translated 
from the Latin, which is here copied from Professor Mit- 
chell's Lecture, p. 27: — 

De Morte et Resurrectione Christi. 
Christus pro nobis passus est 

et immolatus, agnus est, 
Effuso suo sanguine 

in ipsa Crucis arbore; 
Et mortuus imperium 

devicit Diabolicum. 
Nam resurgens ex mortuis 

Victor redit ex inferis, 
Delevit et chirographum 

nobis quod est contrarium, 
Exspoliato Satana, 

reclusa Coeli janua. 
Habemus ergo liberum 

jam nos ad Patris aditum, 



Notes. 235 

Per Christum Dei filium 

pro nobis morti traditum. 
Alleluia, Alleluia! 

Benedicamus Domino ! 
Page 53, line 1. "That drerie difference" (edit. 1621). 
Page 54, line 8. " From thyne to Ynde." The edit. 
1621 corrects this to "from Thyle to Inde." Thyle is a 
name occurring in Solinus, as the Ultima Thule. (See 
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 
i. p. 16.) Lines 14 and 15 are omitted in edit. 1621. 
Page 55, line 16. "I have faultit sore" (edit. 1621). 
Page 57. J call on thee, Lord Jesus Christ. The origi- 
nal German hymn, with title, " Ein Geistlich lied, zu bit- 
ten vmb glauben, lieb vnd hoffhung," is printed by Wack- 
ernagel, No. 226, and ascribed to Paulus Speratus. 
Ich ruff zu dir, Herr Jhesu Christ, 
ich bit, erhbr mein klagen ; 
in five stanzas of nine lines. It is given by Professor Mit- 
chell at p. 73. 

This is one of the four poems or psalms, common both 
to Coverdale and Wedderburn. The following various 
readings may be noticed : 

Line 4. Tyll thy swete worde have conforted me. 
13. Excepte thou with thy grace oppresse. 
15. Cause me therefore 
to hope evermore 
On thy mercy and swete promises. 
23. unthankfully departe. 

38. Followe upon me where I go. 
Therefore wolde I 
Now fayne delyvered be. 



236 Notes. 

In Coverdale's volume, the seventh line of each stanza 
is divided into two short lines, as above, line 15, &c. 

Page 60, line 19. Gloir, for the sake of the rhyme, 
should be read glorie. The edition 1621 has glore. 

Page 62, line n. "Of Christ forsuith no thing wee 
knaw" (edit. 1621). 

Page 63, line 22. "Our heill," edit. 1621; but heill 
and helth are synonymous. 

Page 64. Of thingis tvua, I pray thee, Lord, These 
verses are a paraphrase of the words of Agur, recorded in 
the Book of Proverbs, ch. xxx. v. 7, &c. 

Page 64, line 21. "Puirteith" (edit. 1621). 
Page 65, line 14. "Wald diuert;" and line 20, "As 
into deid" (edit. 1621). 

Page 73, line 3. " Lat us rejoyce" (edit. 1621). 
Page 74. Psalm ii. Coverdale's version of this Psalm 
consists of six verses. The first is as follows : 
Wherfore do the heithen now rage thus, 

Conspyryng together so wyckedly ? 
Wherfore are the people so malicious, 

Vayne thynges to ymagyn so folyshly ? 
The kynges of the earth stonde up together, 
And worldly rulers do conspyre [ever] 
Agaynst the Lorde and his Christ truly. 

Page 74. Psalm vi. — Quhat is the caus, God omnipo- 
tent — is from the German, 

HilfF Gott, wie geht das imer zu, 

dass alles volck so grimmet ? 

attributed to Andrew Knopken, and said to have appeared 

in one of the Enchiridions of 1528. Wackernagel, No. 



Notes. 237 

273, gives it in two texts of eight seven-line stanzas. Pro- 
fessor Mitchell, at p. 75, says, " It is found in the Magde- 
burg and in the Strasburg Hymn-books." 

Page 75, line 4. " Yow hes send," read " Thow hes 
send;" and in line 13, " Thow makis," or "thou 
makes," in the old copies, is an evident misprint for 
" Thow mockis." 

Page 76. Psalm xi. Coverdale's version of this Psalm 
is in six verses, with the following title. The first verse 
may serve as a specimen : 

Agaynst False Doctryne and Ypocrites. 

Helpe now, O Lorde, and loke on us, 
How we are brought in lowe degre. 
Thy sayntes are dryven from every house, 
Where are fewe faythfull lefte truly : 
Men wyll not suffre thy trueth to be known, 
Thy fayth is almost overthrowen 
Amonge men's chyldren piteously. 

Page 76. Psalm xii. Satf us, gude Lord, and succour 
send. Or Psalm xi., as here, according to the numbering 
of the Vulgate. Luther's German version, 

Ah ! Gott von himel, sich darein 
und las dich des erbarmen, 

as given by Wackernagel, No. 185, was used by Wedder- 
burn. 

Page 78. Psalm xiii. — xxii. is a typographical mistake 
in the old copies for xii. according to the Vulgate, and line 
5 is evidently wanting. 



238 Notes. 

Ach Got, wie lang vergissest mein 
gar nocht bis an das ende ! 
Professor Mitchell, p. 77, gives three verses of the Ger- 
man, and thus supplies the defective line, 

[Mine enemie exalted be, how lang ?] 

Wackernagel (No. 279) prints this version of "Der Zwelfft 
Psalm," under the name of the author, Mattheus Greiter. 
Page 78. Psalm xv. is also wrong numbered xxiiij. 
Lord, quha sail in heuin dwell with Thee. This Psalm 
was derived from the German of Wolfgang Dachstein, 

O Herr, wer wirt wonunge hon 
in deinen zelten kliige. 

See Wackernagel, No. 263. 

Page 79, line 6. " Be knaw," a mistake for "he knaw." 
Line 19. " From fyre," in edit. 1621, " from sinne." 

Page 79. Psalm xxiii. The Lord God is my Pastor gude, 
is line for line with the German version of Wolfgang 
Meiiszlin, or Wolfgang Musculus, 

Der Herre ist mein trewer hirt, 
Helt mich in seiner hiite. 

See Wackernagel, No. 268, and the Appendix of Professor 
Mitchell's Lecture, pp. 79-80. 

Page 80, line 11. " And thocht I wauer, or ga will; " 
in edit. 1621, "And though I wander, or goe will." Go 
will means to go astray. 

Page 81, last line. "And worship him all haunts" 
(edit. 1 621). 

Page 86, line 7. " The wickit man; " — line 15, " Fyne 
(or end) is miserie" (edit. 1621). 



Notes. 239 

Page 88, line 8. " Bot stakerand : " in edit. 1621, 
" But stagger, and almaist." 

Page 90, line 18. For flycht, read slicht; and in the 
same line, Hart's edit. 1621 repeats the word pretend from 
1 6, in place of intend. 

Page 90. Psalm 83. God, for thy grace. An earlier 
version of this Psalm, without the translator's name, occurs 
in Bannatyne's MS., 1568. It consists of seven stanzas. 
The first line, and some others, are the same as Wedder- 
burn's, the second line of which, being defective in the 
printed copies, is supplied from that MS., although the 
rhyme does not suit. In the MS. it begins 

God, for thy grace, thow keip no moir silence, 
Ceiss not, O God, nor hald thy peax no moir, 

For lo thy fois with crewall violence, 

Confiderat ar, and with ane hiddeous roir, 

In this thair rage, thaye ribbalis, brag, and schoir, 

And thay that hait the most maliciously 

Aganis thy micht, thair heidis hes raisd on hie. 

For to oppress thy pepill thay pretend 
With subtill slicht, and moue conspiracie 

For sic as on thy secreit help depend, 
Go to, say thay, and latt us utterlie. 
This natioun rute out from memorie, 

And of the name of Israelitis, lat nevir 

Forther be maid mentioun for euir. 

Conspyrit ar, with crewall hairtis and fell, 
Thus aganis The togidder in ane band. 






240 Notes. 

Page 91, line 25. In Hart's edit. 1621, u Syne sylie 
Princes," supplying the word omitted in edit. 1578. 

Page 94, line 15. Read, as in edit. 1621, "edderis 
stang." 

Page 95. Psalm cxiiii. — Quhenfra Egypt departit Israeli; 
and Psalm cxv. — Not unto us. In the old copies, these 
two Psalms (cxiv. and cxv.) are printed as one, without 
any division, as in the Vulgate, but numbered lxxxj. 
Line 2, harbour is a mistake for harbour (barbarous). 

Page 97, line 8. "For like the watter and walles 
(waves) bryme , ' (edit. 1621). 

Page 97. Psalm cxxiv. Except the Lord with us had 
stand. Professor Mitchell extracts this along with Cover- 
dale's version of the same Psalm, to shew that Wedderburn 
" was not a mere versifier like Myles Cover dale, but a true 
poet, whose words were fitted to go deep into the hearts 
of his countrymen, to rouse them to deeds of noble daring, 
and sustain them even under severest suffering." — (P. 43.) 

Coverdale's version of this Psalm may be here given in 
full: 

The CXXIII. (CXXIV.) Psalme of David. 

Nisi quia Dominus. 
Except the Lorde had bene with us, 

Now maye Israel say boldly; 
Excepte the Lorde had ben with us, 

When men rose up agaynst us fearsly ; 
They had devoured us quyck doutlesse, 
And had overwonne us confortless, 

They were so wroth at us truly. 



Notes. 241 

The waves of waters had wrapped us in ; 

Oure soule had gone under the floode. 
The depe waters of these proude men 

Had ronne oure soules over where they stode. 
The Lorde be praysed every houre, 
That wolde not suffre them us to devoure, 

Nor in theyr tethe to sucke oure bloude ! 

Our soule is delyvered from theyr power, 
They can not have that they have sought. 

As the byrde from the snare of the fouler, 
So are we from theyr daungers brought. 

The snare is broken, and we are fre; 

Oure helpe is in the Lorde's name truly 

Which hath made heaven and earth of nought. 

Page 98. Psalm cxxx. Fra deip, Lord, I call to thee. 
This Psalm was also translated by Coverdale, and is given 
by Professor Mitchell, p. 34, as "one of the most favour- 
able specimens of Coverdale's powers as a translator." 
It begins : 

Out of the depe crye I to The, 

O Lorde ! Lorde ! hear my callynge ; 
O let thyne eares enclyned be 

To the voyce of my complaynynge. 
Yf thou, Lorde, wylt deale with stratenesse, 
To marke all that is done amysse, 

Lorde, who may abyde that rekenynge ? 

Page 99. Psalm cxxxvii. in the old copies is numbered 
cxxxviii. by mistake. This Psalm occurs in Cover dale's 
collection in five stanzas, of which the first may be given : 
Q 



242 Notes. 

At the Ryvers of Babilon, 

There sat we downe ryght hevely ; 
Even whan we thought upon Sion, 

We wepte together sorofully; 
For we were in soch hevynes, 
That we forgat all our merynes, 

And lefte of all oure sport and playe. 
On the willye trees that were thereby 
We hanged up our harpes truly, 

And morned sore both nyght and daye. 
Page 10 1, line 14. All loving, a mistake in the old 
copies for All leaving. 

Page 102, line 22. "All foldit" (edit. 1621). 
Page 104. Psalm li. Have mercy, on me, God of micht. 
See Preface, p. xl., respecting the supposition of this met- 
rical version having been sung by George Wishart the 
night before his apprehension in 1546, Knox quoting the 
lines 

Have mercy on me now, good Lord, 
After thy great mercy. 

There were, however, other translations, particularly two 
by Coverdale, which undoubtedly existed at that time in 
a printed form. A specimen of each may be subjoined 
from his " Ghostly Psalmes and Spirituall Songs : " — 

The L. (LI.) Psalme of David. 

Miserere mei Deus. 
O Lorde God, have mercy on me, 
After thy marvelous great pitie: 
As thou art full of mercy, 
Do away all my iniquite; 



Notes. 243 

And washe me from all fylthynesse 

Of my great synnes and wantonesse; 

For they are many within me, 

And ever I fele them hevye: 

My synne is alwaye before myne eye; 

I have alone offended the ; 

Before the have I lyved synfully: 

In thy worde stondest thou stedfastly, 

Thoughe thou be judged wrongfully. 

The Same Psalme. 
Miserere met Deus. 

God, be mercyfull to me, 
Accordynge to thy great pitie ; 
Washe of, make clene my iniquite: 

1 knowlege my synne, and it greveth me ; 
Agaynst the, agaynst the only 

Have I synned, which is before myne eye ; 
Though thou be judged in man's sight, 
Yet are thy wordes founde true and ryght. 

Page 107, line 18. "Zit of my cleneness" (edit. 1621). 

Page 108, lines 14 and 15. Aduerte, and aduert, so in 
the old copies, in place of Auerte, and auert (turn aw^ay.) 

Page no, line 5. " Conforme" should be, as in edit. 
1621, " Confirme thy Spreit." 

Page 113, line 31. "Ay singand Sanctus sweit." In 
the edit. 1578, " Sanctis; " in that of 1621, " Ay singand 
with sainctes sweit." But the word evidently is Sanctus, 
from the Ter Sanctus (Thrice Holy) in the words of the 
Seraphim, in the magnificent description by Isaiah of his 
heavenly vision (ch. vi. 3), in the ascription of praise to 



244 Notes. 

the Almighty — Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus 
Sabaoth, Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus ; and 
of St John (Revel, iv. 8) — Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, 
Dominus Deus Omnipotens, qui erat, et qui est, 
et qui venturus est. 

Sir David Lyndsay, in his Dreme, says the glorious Spirits 
of the Angelic Host were divided into Nine Orders, 

the quhilkis excellentlye 

Makis loving (praise) with sound melodious 
Syngand Sanctus rycht wounder ferventlye. 
So also Dante, before reaching the ninth heaven, says — 
Si com'io tacqui, un dolcissimo canto, 
Risono per lo Cielo; e la mia donna 1 
Dicea, con gli altri, Santo, Santo, Santo. 
Page 113. Coverdale has two versions of this Psalme, 
cxxviii., the one being an alteration of the other; but 
neither of them need be quoted. 

Page 114, line 25. " Beseikand that hee grant mee 
grace" (edit. 1621). 

Page 116. "Quho is at my window, quho? quho?" 
In Chappell's Popular English Song and Ballad Music, 
vol. i. p. 140, the tune of this song, as it occurs in various 
early collections, is given to the words 

Go from my window, love, go; 

Go from my window, my dear. 
The wind and the rain 
Will drive you back again, 
You cannot be lodged here. 
Page 117, line 7. " Like a stranger" (edit. 1621). 

l Mia Donna, my Lady Beatrice. — (Paradiso, canto xxvi.) 



Notes. 245 

Page 118, line 5. " Sa farre has; " — line 7, " In at thy 
doore" (edit. 1621). 

Page 119. Psalm lxvii. " Deus misereatur." O God 
be mercifull to us. This version is common both to Co- 
verdale and to Wedderburn. The chief variations are the 
following lines : 

Line 1. God be mercyfull unto us, 

And sende over us his blessynge; 
Shewe us his presence glorious, 
And be ever to us lovynge. 
7. That they be not led by nyght nor day 
Throwe the pretexte of trewe justice. 
16. Thou haste directe the earth justly. 
19. O God, let the people prayse the; 

All people, God, mought geve the honoure. 
27. Fearynge alwaye his myght and power. 
Page 122, line 25* " I am not kinde" (edit. 1621). 
Page 124, lines 3 and 7. " Your Grace" evidently ap- 
plies to James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, created Duke of 
Chatelherault, who was appointed Governor of Scotland, 
and filled the office from 1542 to 1554. 

Page 125, line 13. "It indureth" (edit. 1621). 
Page 125. " Magnificat anima mea." My Saul dots 
magnijie the Lord. This, the Song of the Virgin Mary, is 
Coverdale's translation, as given in his " Ghostly Psalmes 
and Hymns." The original German "Das Lobgesang 
Marie," by Symphorianus Pollio, in 1524, begins — 
Meyn seil erhebt den Herren meyn, 
Meyn geyst thut sich erspringen. 
In dem, der sol meyn hey land sein ! 
Maria al thut singen : 



246 Notes. 

Printed in 1570 volume, fol. lxii. : and in Wackernagel, 
No. 521. The chief variations in Coverdale are — 

Line 17. He sheweth strength with his great arme, 
Declarying hymselfe to be of power; 
He scatereth the proude to theyr own harme, 
Even with the wicked behavioure. 
24. Exaltynge them of lowe degre. 
29. And helpeth his servaunt truely 
Even Israel, as he promysed 
Unto oure fathers perpetually, 
Abraham and to his sede. 

An anonymous "Song of the Virgin Mary," in ten 
stanzas, is preserved in George Bannatyne's MS. 1568. 

Page 126. " Christe, qui lux es." Christ, tho^v art the 
/icht, &c. The original was one of the beautiful old Latin 
hymns of the early Christian Church. It may be quoted 
in full, although Wedderburn was probably indebted to 
the old German translation, which Wackernagel, No. 138, 
gives from the " Salus Animas," Nurnberg, 1503, i6mo. 
He also, as No. 21, gives the Latin verses, in the " Inter- 
pretatio Theotisca," ed. Jac. Grimm. It wants the con- 
cluding doxology. 

Hymnus. Ad Completorium. 

1. 
Christe, qui Lux es et dies, 
Noctis tenebras detegis, 
Lucisque lumen crederis, 
Lumen beatum prasdicans. 



Notes. 247 

2. 
Precamur, sancte Domine, 
Defende nos in hac nocte; 
Sit nobis in Te requies, 
Quietam noctem tribue. 

3- 
Ne grauis somnus irruat, 
Nee hostis nos surripiat; 
Nee caro illi consentiens, 
Nos Tibi reos statuat. 

4- 

Oculi somnum capiant, 
Cor ad Te semper vigilet ; 
Dextera Tua protegat 
Famulos, qui Te diligunt. 

5. 

Defensor noster, aspice, 
Insidiantes reprime; 
Guberna Tuos famulos, 
Quos sanguine mercatus es. 
6. 

Memento nostri, Domine, 
In graui isto corpore; 
Qui es defensor animae, 
Adesto nobis, Domine. 

7- 
Deo Patri sit gloria, 
Ej usque soli Filio, 
Cum Spiritu Paraclito 
Et nunc, et in perpetuum. Amen 



248 Notes. 

The above hymn is given from the old Salisbury Missal. 
See the Hymnarium Sarisburiense, p. 64, Lond. 1851, 8vo, 
where it is printed with the music, and collated with the 
best MSS. It is also in the " Kirchengesanng Teutsch 
vnd Lateinisch," &c, fol. lxxiiij., printed at Nuremberg, 
1570, folio, which also has at fol. li. the old German trans- 
lation, beginning 

Christe der du bist tag vnd liecht, 
Fur dir est Herr verborgen nichts 
Du Vaterliches liechtes giant z, 
Lehr vns den weg der warheit gantz. 
An English version, by Cover dale, in a different kind 
of metre, is contained in his Ghostly Psalms and Spiritual 
Songs. It begins 

O Christ, that art the lyght and daye, 

Thou discoverst the darkness of nyght ; 
The lyght of lyghtes thou art alwaye, 

Preaching ever the blessed lyght. 
Thou holy Lorde, to thee we praye 

Defende us all in this darke nyght, 
Let us have rest in thee alwaye, 
And graunt us all a quyet nyght. 
In Bannatyne's MS., 1568, fol. 21, is an older metrical 
version, in seven stanzas of eight verses, the first and last 
of each having the corresponding lines of the Latin origi- 
nal. The first verse may serve as a specimen : 
Christe, qui lux es et dies: 
O Jesu Chryst the verry licht 
And daye that undois all dirknes 
Uncovering mirknes of the nicht 



Notes. 249 

The licht of licht, belevit richt, 
Thow grant us all, but disperance, 
Of thy visage to haif a sicht, 
Lumen beatum predicans. 
Page 126, line 6. "The night; "—line 17, "To take; " 
— line 20, " Loues full weill" (edit. 1621). 

Page 127. Christ is the onlie Sone of God. This is the 
fourth poem in the present collection which belongs to 
Goverdale. The only variations worth noticing are 
Line 12. He hath Hell gates broken. 

21. That they erre not from the ryght. 
28. And to thyrst after no mo. 
It is nearly a literal version of the " Geistlich Lied von 
Christo." The first and second of five verses of the ori- 
ginal maybe quoted, from the 1570 collection, fol. xl. 
Wackernagel, No. 236, inserts it from the earlier "Geyst- 
liche Gesangbuchlin," Wittenberg, 1525, nmo (No. 
xxxv. in his Descriptions, p. 727), and ascribes its com- 
position to Elisabeth Creutziger : 

Herr Christ der einig Gotts Son, 
Vatters in ewigkeit, 
Auss seim hertzen entsprossen, 
Gleich wie geschriben steht : 
Er ist der Morgensterne, 
Sein glantz streckt er sehr feme, 
Fur andern Sternen klar. 

Fur vns ein mensch geboren, 
Im let z ten theil der zeit. 
Der Mutter vnuerloren, 
Ir junckfrewlich keuscheit. 



250 Notes. 

Den tod fur vns zubrochen, 
Den Himel auffgeschlossen, 
Das leben, widerbracht. 
Page 128, line 8. "Awake, O Lord" (edit. 1621). 
Page 128. Christ Jesus is ane A per C : that is, A per 
se. The letter A, by itself, as the first in the alphabet, is 
applied by the old Scottish poets — by Dunbar, Douglas, 
and others — to denote a person or thing incomparable. 
(Alex. Scott's Poems, 1568, p. 91.) 

Page 132. Greuous is my Sorrow. The original of 
this may have been an English song of the latter part of 
the Fifteenth Century, preserved in a MS. of Sloane's — 
British Museum, No. 1584, fol. 85. It has fourteen 
stanzas of eight lines, and is printed, with the title, " The 
Dying Maiden's Complaint," in Ritson's Ancient English 
Songs, 1790, p. 93, and as "A Song of Love-Longing," 
in Wright and Halliwell's Reliquiae Antiquae, 1841, vol. 
i. p. 70. The first verse may be quoted — 
Grevus ys my sorowe, 
Both evyne and moro! 
Unto my selfe alone 
Thus do I make my mowne: 
That unkyndnes hath kylled me, 

And put me to this peyne; 
Alas ! what remedy ? 
That I can not refreyne. 
Page 136, line 14. "My Testament" (edit. 1621). 
Page 137, line 23. "For I had lever die;" — line 24, 
"For hir saull" (edit. 1621). 

Page 138, line 10. "Represents man;" — line 15, "Oh 
Johne" (edit. 1621). 






Notes. 251 

Page 138. " Johne, cum kis me now." The old and 
popular English tune, with this name, is found in Queen 
Elizabeth's Virginal Book, and in various printed collec- 
tions. Mr Chappell, in his " Popular Music of the Olden 
Time," vol. i. p. 147, has collected numerous allusions to 
it by the old dramatists and other writers. One of these is 
from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. I do not find the 
words in the edit. Lond. 1632; but they occur in the fifth 
and augmented edition, p. 532, 1638, folio — " Yea, many 
times this love will make old men and women, that have 
more toes than teeth, dance, — John, come kiss me nonv" 

In Greaves's Songs, London, 1604, folio, No. v., as 
quoted by Mr George Chalmers (MS. collections, in my 
possession), we find 

1 pray thee, sweet John, 
Gentle John, come quickly kisse me; 
Come quickly kisse me ; 
Quick, quick, quick, quick, and let me be. 
Mr C. adds, " Query if this be not a ridicule of 'John, 
come kiss me now,' in the Godlie Ballates ? " 

Page 139, line 3. "O pure lyfe" probably should be 
"Of pure luif (love) ; "—line 19, " He left behinde " (edit. 
1621). 

Page 141, line 12. "Thus contende" (edit. 1621). 

Page 142, line 6. " And bid; " — line 8, " Defender; " 
— line 25, "And full meike" (edit. 1621). Byde, in line 
6, is a mistake for hyde. 

Page 143, line 1. " That health is for all flesh ; " — line 
2, "Thy Saviour;" — line 16, "Returne to earth againe" 
(edit. 1 621). 

Page 143. Our Brother let us put in graue. This fune- 



252 Notes. 

ral hymn I printed in the Wodrow Miscellany, 1844, along 
with " The Forme and Maner of Buriall used in the Kirk 
of Montrois" (pp. 291-300), from a MS. of the latter part 
of the 1 6th century. I was not aware at the time of the 
German original ; nor indeed till I met with Miss Winck- 
worth's English translation, accompanied with the notice 
that it was written by Michael Weiss. When the dawn 
of the Reformation was hailed with joy by the Bohemian 
Church, Weiss was one of two messengers deputed in 
15 22 to see Luther, and to entreat his advice. In 153 1, 
Michael Weiss published the Hymns of the Bohemian 
Brethren, translated into German, with the addition of 
several written by himself, of which this was one. Luther 
introduced several of these into his own Hymn-book. 
The original words of this hymn are here subjoined from 
the Nuremberg collection, 1570, which also has the music. 
The English translation alluded to above will be found 
in the Lyra Germanica, Second Series, p. 117; and re- 
printed in "The Chorale Book for England," No. 96, 
Lond. 1863, 4to, having the original tune harmonised. 
In this excellent collection, the Hymns are from the Lyra 
Germanica, by Miss Winckworth, accompanied with "the 
Tunes from the Sacred Music of the Lutheran, Latin, and 
other Churches, for four voices, compiled and edited by 
Professor W. Sterndale Bennett and Otto Goldschmidt," 
London, 1863, small 4to. 

Geseng %um Begrebnuss. 

Nun lasst vns den Leib begraben, 
Daran gar kein zweiffel haben, 
Er werd am Jiingsten tag auffstehn, 
Vnd vnuerwesslich herflir gehn. 



Notes. 253 

Erd ist er, vnd von der erden, 
Wird auch zu erd wider werden, 
Vnd von der erd wider aufferstehen, 
Wenn Gottes posaun wird angehn. 

Sein Seele lebt ewig in Gott, 
Der sie allhie auss lauter gnad, 
Von aller suntl vnd missethat, 
Durch seinen Son erloset hat. 

Sein jammer, triibsal vnd ellend, 
Ist kommen zu eim seligen end, 
Er hat getragen Christus joch, 
Ist gestorben vnd lebt doch noch. 

Die Seele lebt on alle klag, 
Der Leib schlefft biss an Jungsten tag, 
An welchem Gott er verkleren, 
Und ewiger freud wird gewehren. 

Hie ist er in angst gewesen, 
Dort aber wird in genesen, 
In ewiger freud vnd wonne, 
Leuchten wie die helle Sonne. 

Nun lassen wir in hie schlaffen, 
Vnd gehn allheim vnser strassen, 
Schicken vns auch mit allem fleiss, 
Denn der Todt kombt vns gleicher weiss. 

Das helff vns Christus vnser trost, 
Der vns durch sein blut hat erlost, 
Vons Teufels gwalt vnd ewiger pein, 
Im sey lob, preiss vnd ehr allein. 

Folio, 1570, fol. lxv. 



254 Notes. 

In Wackernagel, No. 373, we find a somewhat different 
text. He omits the last four lines. It only remains to 
observe, that four of Wedderburn's stanzas (the 8th, 9th, 
roth, and nth) — 

Quhen commin is our hour and tyme, 

are probably original, as they have no counterpart in the 
German texts. 

Page 148. With he'vie Hart full of Distres. This poem 
occurs in the Inverness Manuscript (see p. 221). The 
following variations may be noted : 

Line 8. And salve (save) me sinfull creature. 
14. That I was gottin and borne in. 
20. healls all earthlie. 

23. The haill Scriptoure. 
The concluding lines after 28 are lost. 

Page 151. Christ ■, quhilk art the licht of day. The 
similarity in the first verse renders it not unlikely that it 
may have been suggested by the older hymn, Christy thou 
art the licht, printed at page 126. 

Page 152, line 6. "Idolatrie;" — line 13, "Sum raknit 
Creids" (edit. 1621). 

Page 152. " With huntes up, with huntes up." The 
popular English song, which was a favourite of Henry the 
Eighth, is said to have been written by William Gray, 
who wrote a ballad on the downfall of Thomas Earl of 
Cromwell. It begins 

The hunt is up, the hunt is up, 

And it is well-nigh day; 
And Harry our king is gone hunting, 

To bring his deer to bay. 



Notes. 255 

But a similar Song was known in Scotland at a much 
earlier date. See note in Henry son's Poems and Fables, p. 
295. Also Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, 
&c, vol. i. p. 60 ; and Dr Rimbault's Little Book of Songs 
and Ballads, p. 67, Lond. 185 1, post 8vo. Alexander 
Scott, in his poem " Of May" (before 1568), has 

With hunts up, every morning plaid. 

Page 153, line 19. " Our pence; " — line 25, "Tantonie 
Bell," evidently the Bell of St Anthony, although Dr Jamie- 
son explained it as " a small bell," from the Fr. tinton-er, 
to resound ; but in the Supplement to his Dictionary he 
admitted that it might refer to St Anthony. 

Page 154, line 13. " Absolued" (edit. 1621). 

Page 159, line 10. " Are rutted out;" — line 13, "Thocht 
vagant Freiris" (edit. 1621). 

Page 160, line 8. "They said, Thay did botterre" 
(edit. 1 621). 

Page 161, line 21. " Sa lang hes sylde" (edit. 1621). 

Page 162, line 1. " Fatheris of haly kirk, this xv. hun- 
der zeir." In the edit. 1621, this and the last line of the 
other stanzas are changed to "the xvi. hunder zeir." 

Page 163, line 12. "Therefore, sayes Gedoe, woes mee" 
(edit. 1621). 

Page 164, line 4. "They snuffe at it; " — line 8, "Way 
is the hirdis" (edit. 1621). 

Page 166. "The wind blawis cauld." This is the 
burden of an English song in praise of Christmas, entitled 
" A pleasant countrey new ditty ; merrily shewing how to 
drive the Cold Winter away." See Chappell's Popular 
Music of the Olden Time, vol. i. p. 198. 



256 Notes. 

It will be observed that in this set of verses there is a 
double rhyme in lines 1 and 3 of each stanza. — Line 6. 
"This is the vyce" (edit. 1621). 

Page 168, line 2. "Traist to;" — lines 12 and 25, 
"Rings" (reigns) (edit. 1621). 

Page 168. Hay now, the day dallis. Dallis is the same 
as dawis, or dawns. Dunbar and Gawyn Douglas, in the 
reign of James the Fourth, mention the tune, Now the 
day dawis, and The joly day now dawis, as one that was 
well known to the common minstrels. Alexander Mont- 
gomery, who flourished in the reign of James the Sixth 
(1580 to 1598), has, in the MS. collection of his minor 
poems, an imitation of the old ballad. See it printed in his 
Poems in 1821. I may take this opportunity to add, that 
the note at p. 315 contains an evident mistake in supposing 
Montgomery's song to have been anterior in date to that 
in the present collection. The first verse of Montgomery's, 
correcting the orthography, may be here quoted, as sug- 
gesting that both imitations had one common source: — 

Hay ! now the day dawis, 
The jolie cok crawis, 
Now shroudis the shawis 

Throw Nature anone : 
The thrissell-cok cryis 
On luvaris quha lyis: 
Now skaillis the skyis, 

The nicht is neir gone. 

The only resemblance in the remaining verses is the 
burden — 

The nicht is neir gone. 



Notes. 257 

Page 170, line 3. "The Arme of Sanct Grill." The 
arm-bone of St Giles was regarded as a relique of inestim- 
able value, when brought to this country by William Pres- 
toun of Gourtoun, who bequeathed it "to our mother 
kirk of Sant Gele of Edynburgh," nth of January 
1454-5. See facsimile of the Charter, and an account of 
the- fate of this far-famed relique, in the Historical Notices 
(p. xvi.) prefixed to the volume of Charters of the Col- 
legiate Church of St Giles, printed for the Bannatyne 
Club, 1859, 4to. 

Page 170, line 5. "And sauit" (so also in edit. 162 1, 
but should be " sanit"). 

Page 172, line 3. " Common lawes; " — line 27, " Saue" 
(edit. 1 621); but saue should be sane (bless). 

Page 175, line 14. "Woluis;" — line 22, "Their false 
doctrine" (edit. 1621). 

Page 175. " Remember, man," &c. Dr Rimbault, in 
his Little Book of Songs and Ballads, p. 79, gives this 
Christmas Carol from the collection entitled "Melismata: 
Musicall Phansies fitting the Court, Citie, and Countrey 
Humours," Lond. 161 1, 4to, but says it is much earlier 
than the date of the book. It is also to be found in the 
Aberdeen Cantus, 1662, 1666, and 1681, No. ix., as a reli- 
gious song, in nine verses, of which the first runs thus — 

Remember, O thou man, Remember, O thou man, 
Remember, O thou man, thy time is spent ; 

Remember, O thou man, how thou was dead and gone, 
And I did what I can ; therefore repent. 

Page 1 7 6 , line 1 8 . "The haly hag matines ' ' (edit. 1 6 2 1 ) . 
Page 178. "Hey trix," &c In this satirical effusion, 
R 



258 Notes. 

the expressions used evidently refer to events when the 
Protestants, under the name of The Congregation, had 
taken matters into their own hands, or, to the year 1559. 

Page 180, line 15. "The parson" (edit. 1621). 

Same page, line 19. "The parish priest; " — line 20, "He 
polit thame wantonly" (edit. 1621). 

Same page, line 22. "Scotland Well" the name of 
an hospital or religious house in the shire of Kinross, 
founded in the year 1238, and afterwards bestowed upon 
the Red Friars. " Faill" is in Kyle, one of the subdivi- 
sions of Ayrshire: it was a cell or priory depending upon 
the Abbey of Paisley. 

Page 181. "Say weill, and Do weill." This anony- 
mous poem occurs in Bannatyne's MS. 1568, fol. 83. 
There are a few verbal discrepancies, but not worth point- 
ing out, excepting that the MS. has 82 lines: the last two, 
not in the printed text, are as follows : — 

Say weill and Do weill ar thingis twane, 
Thryse happy is he quhome in thay do remane. 

Page 182, line 17. " Nouther sect nor prance" (edit. 
1621). 

Page 185, line 22. "Your bishops;" — line 26, "For 
Dustifit," &c. (edit. 1621). Dustyfoot, a name given to 
a pedlar; but here, as Dr Jamieson suggests, it has an 
evident application to revelry. 

Page 186. " Ane Disswation from vaine Lust." Was not 
Salomon the King. A similar poem in ten stanzas, the ex- 
amples adduced corresponding with the first portion of the 
present one, occurs among " The Ballatis of Luve," in the 
fourth part of George Bannatyne's MS. 1568, fol. 215. 
It is signed, " Finis, quod ane Inglisman." The first two 



Notes. 259 

verses of the MS. may serve for comparison. There is this 
difference, however, that the one is a prolix Dissuasion 
from Love, while the other is the entreaty of a Lover to 
his Lady. 

Was nocht gud King Salamon 

reuisit in sindry wyiss 
With very lufe of paragon 
glistering befoir his eis ? 
Gif this be trew, trew as it was, 
Lady! Lady! 
Suld nocht I serwe yow, alace ! 

My fair Lady ! 

Quhen Paris wes inamorit 

of Helena dame bewteis speir, 
Than Venus first him promisit 

to venter on, and nocht for to feir : 
Quhat sturdy stormes indurit he, 
Lady! Lady! 
To win her lufe, or it wald be, 

My deir Lady ! 

The tenth or concluding stanza in the MS. may be 
added, as it has no counterpart in the present volume. 

Now gif all thir Wechtis of wirdines 

indiuorit sic panis to tak, 
With wailzeant deidis and sturdines, 

in ventering for thair ladeis saik, 
Quhy suld nocht I, puir sempill man, 

Lady! Lady! 
Lawbour and serwe yow the best that I can, 
My deir Lady ! 



260 Notes. 

It may be noticed that King Salomon was a popular tune 
in England. In 15 61-2, John Tesdale, among other bal- 
lads, obtained a license for printing " a new ballatt after 
the tune of Kynge Salomon." In the remarkable collection 
of Black-letter Ballads and Broadsides in the collection of 
Henry Huth, Esq., recently published, there is one en- 
titled, " A proper new Balad of the Bryber Gehesie — to 
the tune of King Salomon" licensed to Thomas Colwell in 
1566-7. In the same collection is, " A godly ballad de- 
claring by the Scriptures the plagues that have insued 
whordome," printed by John Allde, 1566. It is of a 
similar import with the Dissuasion in the Gude and God- 
lie Ballates, but in a different measure. 

Page 187, line 20. "To Paramours" (edit. 1621). 

Page 188, line 7. " Anaretus" (edit. 1621). This re- 
fers to Anaxarete, who despised the addresses of I phis. — 
See Ovid, Metamorph. lib. xiv. 

Page 202. " Sen throw Vertew incressis dignitie." 
This is the only authority for attributing these verses to 
KING JAMES THE FIRST of Scotland (1406— 
1437). In Bannatyne's MS. 1568, fol. 58, they occur 
anonymously, with numerous verbal differences. In 
neither copy do we find the language of the early part 
of the fifteenth century. 




[ 261 J 



GLOSSARY. 



Abak, page 95, back, 

Abbominabill, 71, abomin- 
able, 

Abbottis, 179, abbots, 

A bill, 114, able, 

Abirone, 156, Abiram, 

A bone, 76, above, 

Aboue, 30, above, 

A boundantlie, 147, abun- 
dantly. 

Abrogate, 81, abrogated, 

Abstene, 140, abstain, 

Abufe, 63, above. 

Abusioun, 176, abuse, 

Abusit, 166, abused, 

Abyde, abydis, 64, 83, 
abide, abides, waits for. 

Achab, 157, Ahab, 

Acknawledged, acknow- 
ledged. 

Actis, 100, acts, 

Adamis, 183, Adams, 

Adoir, 200, adore, 

A dome, 63, adore, wor- 
ship, 

Adow, 138, ado. 

Adrest, 8 4, provided, 

Aduance, 65, advance. 



Aduance, 102, promote, 

Aduenterit, 187, adven- 
tured, 

Aduersitie, 109, adversity. 

Aduert, 30, 108, advert, 
turn away, 

Aduerteis, 36, inform, 

Aduertise, 187, advise. 

Aduocate, 61, advocate. 

Affray, 93, frighten, 

A frayed, 187, afraid, 

Againe, 30, again, 

Againe, 75, against, 

Aganis, 94, against. 

Agast, 84, aghast, 

Aige, 82, age, 

Ailit, 95, ailed, 

Aind, 26, breath, spirit. 

Air, 24, early. 

Air and lait, 67, early and 
late. 

Air, 75, heir, 

A iris, 175, heirs, 

Airt, 192, way. 

Alanerlie, 56, only, 

Aleuin, 176, eleven, 

A Hue, 24, alive. 

Alkin, 88, each. 



262 



Glossary. 



Allace, 102, alas. 
Allaine, 124, alone. 
Allalua, 52, halleluiah. 
Allane, 47, alone. 
Allanerlie, 92, only. 
All haill, 86, wholly. 
A Hone, 59, alone. 
Allowis, 185, allows. 
Alluterlie, 162, utterly. 
Almaist, 179, almost. 
Almichtie, 92, almighty. 
Almous, 180, alms. 
Alquhair, 83, everywhere. 
Als, 24, as; 35, also. 
Aiswa, 42, also. 
Alteris, 183, altars. 
A 1 way is, 61, always. 
Amang, 44, among. 
Amendit, 201, amended. 
A mene, 1 05 , pleasant. 
Amis, 72, amiss, wrong. 
Ane, 40, a. 
Ane, 5 7? one. 
Aneuch, 23, enough. 
Angell, 73, angel. 
Angellis, 47, angels. 
Anis, 57, once. 
Anis, 153, one's. 
Anker, 196, anchor. 
A none, 2> 2,-) anon* 
Answerit, 36, answered. 
A per C, 128, A per se. 
Appeir, 29, appear. 
Appeirand, $5, apparent. 
Appeirand, 82, appearing. 
Appeirandly, 106, appa- 
rently. 
Appeiris, 63, appears. 
Appeirit, 39, appeared. 



Apperis, 168, appears. 

Appetyte, 83, desire. 

Appetyte, 65, appetite. 

Appillis, 10 1, apples. 

Approchis, 144, approaches. 

Apostillis, 38, apostles. 

Ar, 21, are. 

Archebischop, 156, arch- 
bishop. 

Areird, 50, disordered. 

Argound, 89, argued. 

Arme, 170, arm. 

Armes, 32, arms. 

Articklis, 2, articles. 

As, 24, ashes. 

Ascence, 95, ascent. 

Ascendis, 167, ascends. 

Ascendit, 36, ascended. 

Ascryue, 177, ascribe. 

Asking, 6 3, petition. 

Asse, 18, ashes. 

Asse, 66, ass. 

Assence, 107, ascent. 

Assentioun, 39, ascension. 

Assis, 180, asks. 

Assis, 44, asses. 

Asweill, 176, as well. 

At the home, 67, outlawed. 

Athort, 95, hither and thi- 
ther. 

Atouir, 121, above. 

Attour, 53, above, over. 

Auance, 170, advance. 

Auarice, 70, avarice. 

Aucht, 40, ought. 

Aueis, 152, Aves. 

Augustinis, 179, Augus- 
tine s, or friars of the 
order of St Augustine. 



Glossary. 



263 



Auise, 201, advise. 
Auld, 81, old. 
Auoyde, 102, put away. 
Austeir, 84, austere. 
Authoure, 88, author. 
Auy sit, 201, advised. 
Aw, 159, awe. 
A walk, 128, 195, awake. 
Awalkis, 89, awakes. 
A win, 84, own. 
Ay, 28, aye. 
Ay, 169, always. 



B. 

Babling, 179, babbling. 
Bad, 10, bade. 
Bailfull, 147, cruel. 
Bailfull, 142, pitiless. 
Baill, 188, sorrow. 
Baill, 84, burning, hatred. 
Baine, 152, 169, bone. 
Bair, 199, bare. 
Bairne, 43, child. 
Baith, 28, both. 
Bak, 97, back. 
Bak and syde, 9 ^altogether. 
Balaamis, 156, Balaam's. 
Bald, 88, bold. 
Baldly, 150, boldly. 
Baliallis, 142, Belial's. 
Ballat, 25, 81, ballad. 
Ballatis, 74, ballads. 
Balulalow, 43, lullaby. 
Ban, 161, curse. 
Band, 68, bond. 
Bandis, 69, bonds. 
Bane, 158, bone. 



Baneis, 129, banish. 
Baneist, 159, banished. 
Banis, 170, bones. 
Banischit, 189, banished, 
Bapteist, 13, baptised. 
Baptisit, 5, baptised. 
Baptisme, 12, baptism. 
Bardit, 82, equipped. 
Barne, 183, child. 
Barnis, 49, children. 
Barrane, 95, barren. 
Barrounis, 196, barons. 
Batell, 22, battle. 
Battell, 122, battle. 
Baudrie, 1, lasciviousness. 
Bauld, 182, bold. 
Be, 36, by. 
Be war, 43, beware. 
Beame, 151, beam. 
Becaus, 6, because. 
Becum, 156, become. 
Becummin, 44, bee ome ; 57, 

becoming. 
Befoir, 32, before. 
Beforne, 23, before. 
Beggand, 85, begging. 
Begger, 35, beggar. 
Beggaris, 165, beggars. 
Begilit, 161, beguiled. 
Beginnis, 74, begins. 
Begouth, 31, began. 
Begylde, 159, beguiled. 
Begylit, 169, beguiled. 
Behald, behold. 
Behauiour, 125, behaviour. 
Behauld, 129, behold. 
Behuffit, 180, behoved. 
Behuiffit, 180, behoved. 
Beidis, 152, beads. 



264 



Glossary. 



Beild, 93, shelter, refuge. 
Beir, 193, bear, carry. 
Beir, 163, bier. 
Beiris, 26, bears. 
Beist, 89, fozj*. 
Beistis, 101, beasts. 
Bek, 91, Zw-xu. 
Belangis, 59, belongs. 
Belangit, 86, belonged. 
Beleif, 36, believe. 
Beleif, 161, belief. 
Beleuand. 102, believing. 
Beleue, 3, believe. 
Beieue, 98, belief. 
Beleuing, 185, believing. 
Beleuis, 5, believes. 
Beleuit, 151, believed. 
Bellie, 185, belly. 
Bellis, 156, Bel's, the great 

national idol of Babylon. 
Bellis, 47, bells. 
Belleis, 168, bellies. 
Bellyis, 164, bellies. 
Belouit, 41, beloved. 
Belyue, 186, quickly, ere long. 
Bemis, 127, beams. 
Bend, 95, bound, leap. 
Bene, 48, been. 
Benefites, 111, benefits. 
Beneth, 2, beneath. 
Benignitie, 81, benignity. 
Bening, 43, benign. 
Bequyeth, 136, bequeath. 
Beseik, 115, beseech. 
Beseiking, 114, beseeching. 
Besettis, 109, besets. 
Besyde, 80, beside. 
Betakinnis, 107, betokens, 

denotes. 



Bet in, 133, beaten. 

Betuix, 31, betwixt. 

Bewtie, 188, beauty. 

Bezond, 127, beyond. 

Biddene, ^^, bidding, com- 
mand. 

Biddis, 195, bids. 

Big, 49, build. 

Bill, 54, record, writ. 

Bimand, 196, burning. 

Birnist, 84, burnished. 

Bis, 163, hiss. 

Bischop, 158, bishop. 

Bischoppis, 185, bishops. 

Bissie, 124, busy. 

Bitternes ,188, bitterness. 

Bittis, 184, bits, pieces. 

Blaid, 83, blade. . 

Blait, 163, bleat. 

Blasphemis, 168, blas- 
phemes. 

Blasphemit, 103, blas- 



Blating, 161, bleating. 
Blaw, 81, blow. 
Blawis, 166, blows. 
Blaw, 78, blow, stroke. 
Blawin, 166, blown. 
Bleid, 126, bleed. 
Bleir, dim. 
Blenk, 198, look. 
Blerit, 179, dulled, dimmed. 
Blinde, 59, blind. 
Blindit, 159, blinded. 
Blindlingis, 50, blindfold. 
Blis, 186, bliss. 
Blis, 6s, bless. 
Blissing, 65, blessing. 
Blissit, 177, blessed. 



Glossary. 



265 



Blys, bliss. 

Blyssing, 38, blessing. 
Blyssit, 61, blessed. 
Blyith, 60, blithe, merry, 

joyous. 
Blyithnes, 109, gladness. 
Blude, 34, blood. 
Bludie, 50, bloody. 
Bocht, 20, bought. 
Bodie, 82, body. 
Bodyis, 102, bodies. 
Boist, 78, threatening. 
Boist, 9 1, fraternity. 
Boist, 173, vaunt. 
Boist, 53, boasting. 
Bonet, 171, bonnet. 
Bony, 180, beautiful. 
Borne, 71, born. 
Bosome, 36, bosom. 
Bot, 14, but. 
Bot, 84, without. 
Bourd, 70, jest. 
Bowne, 55, destined. 
Bowne, 124, ready. 
Bowne, 198, prepared. 
Bra, 95, steep hillside. 
Braid, 9, broad. 
Braith, 190, breath. 
Brak, 5, break. 
Brak, 158, broke. 
Brank, 181, restrain, halter. 
Braull, 168, brawl. 
Brawling, 171, dancing. 
Breid, 75, bread. 
Breidis, 188, breeds. 
Breist, 144, breast. 
Brek, 147, break. 
Brekand, in, breaking. 
Breking, 88, breaking. 



Brekis, 3, breaks. 

Brether, 36, brethren. 

Bricht, 74, bright. 

Bringand, 127, bringing. 

Bringis, 188, brings. 

Brint, 113, 160, burned. 

Brocht, 144, brought. 

Brokin, 127, broken. 

Browis, 185, brows. 

Bruik, 10, 178, enjoy. 

Bruke, 83, possess. 

Brukkill, 174, brittle, frail. 

Brukilnes, 131, brittleness, 
frailty. 

Brunt, 190, burned. 

Brym, 97, raging. 

Buik, book. 

Buird, is, board. 

Buke, 37, book. 

Buklar, 93, buckler. 

Bulrand, 97, rushing, gurg- 
ling. 

Bullis, 154, bulls. 

Bunnis, 180, (for the 
rhyme), bums. 

Burbone, Bourbon. 

Burding, 25, burden. 

Bure, 122, bore. 

Burges, 179, burgess. 

Burgh and land, 62, town 
and country. 

Burne, 30, burn. 

Burnis, 97, small streams. 

Burris, 91, burrs. 

Bury it, 3, buried. 

Busie, 166, busy. 

But, 168, without. 

But peir, 26, unequalled. 

B ut weir, 130, without doubt. 



266 



Gk 



ry. 



Buyldit, builded. 
By, 167, buy. 
Bybill, 191, bible, 
Bydand, 98, waiting. 
Byde, 53, remain, abide. 
Byke, 92, hive. 
Byrd, 121, bird. 
Byrne, 89, burn. 
Byrth, 122, birth. 
Byte, 91, bite. 



Cace, 106, case. 

Caffe, 92, chaff. 

Cankert, 16 3, peevish. 

Caip, 152, cap. 

Caip, 176, cloak. 

Cair, 41, care. 

Cairfull, 168, sorrowful, 

woful. 
Caist, 180, cast. 
Cains, 113, calves. 
Callis, 107, calls. 
Callit, 32, called. 
Calues, calves. 
Campion, 99, champion. 
Capitanis, 168, captains. 
Captiuitie, 68, captivity. 
Cardinallis, 179, cardinals. 
Cariounis, 163, carions. 
Carnall, 69, carnal. 
Carue, 63, carve. 
Caryit, 35, carried. 
Casius, Sinai. 
Castell, 190, castle. 
Castis, 75, casts. 
Catechisme, 2, catechism. 



Catholick, 10, catholic. 
Catiue, 65, caitiff. 
Catyue, 35, wretched. 
Caucht, 191, caught. 
Cauld, 166, cold. 
Caus, 74, cause. 
Cause, 158, because. 
Causis, 121, causes. 
Causit, caused. 
Ceis, 47, cease. 
Ceiss, 90, cease. 
Ceist, 153, ceased. 
Celcitude, 45, highness. 
Celsitude, 104, highness. 
C eremony is, 195, cere- 
monies. 
Certaine, 35, certain. 
Citizenar, 31, citizen. 
Chaftis, 99, jaws. 
Chaist, 189, chaste. 
Chaistitie, 8, chastity. 
Chancit, 35, chanced. 
Changeit, changed. 
Changit, 51, changed. 
Channoun, 195, canon. 
Chanslar, 156, chancellor. 
Chantour, 156, chanter. 
Chapiane, 156, chaplain. 
Chargis, 155, charges. 
Chargit, 38, charged. 
Cheif, 69, chief. 
Cheikis, 109, cheeks. 
Cheir, 32, cheer. 
Cheis, 189, choose. 
Cheritie, 60, charity. 
Cheritabill, 174, charitable. 
Childeris, 114, children's. 
Chirurgiane, 149, surgeon. 
Chirnesyde, Chirnside. 



Glossa, 



ry. 



267 



Chore, 156, Korah, 

Chosin, 64, chosen. 

Christen, 157, Christian. 

Christianely, 14, Christian 
like. 

Christin, 10, Christian. 

Christinmes, 63, Christmas. 

Christis, 20, Christ's. 

Chylde, 74, child. 

Clais, 44, clothes. 

Claith, 171, cloth. 

Claspit, 99, clasped. 

Clatter, 170, 176, resound, 
pour out. 

Cled, 55, clothed. 

Cleif, 91, cleave. 

Cleir, 20, clear. 

Cleirar, 77, clearer. 

Cleirly, 178, clearly. 

Cleith, 178, clothe. 

Cleithe, 32, clothe. 

Cleirlie, 88, clearly. 

Cleithing, 32, clothing. 

Clek, 91, hatch. 

Clene, 17, clean. 

Clenar, 107, cleaner. 

Clengeit, 67, cleansed. 

Clensen, 107 , purification. 

Clerkis, 166, clerks. 

Gleue, 90, cleave. 

Cleuis, 181, cleaves. 

Clink, 176, tinkle. 

Clokit, 87, cloaked. 

Cloikit, 90, cloaked, disguis- 
ed ; 161, feigned. 

Closit, 154, closed. 

Cloude, 151, cloud. 

Clude, 151, cloud. 

Clymmis, 145, climbs. 



Coft, 172, bought. 

Coist, 41, 193, cost. 

Coist, 61, exchanged 

Coistly, 35, costly. 

Coistlie, 164, costly. 

Coitis, 171, coats. 

C oiler, 158, collar. 

Collectit, collected. 

Come, 68, came. 

Comforting, 124, comfort. 

Commandis, 198, orders. 

Committit, 54, committed. 

Commouit, 74, moved. 

Commoun, 102, common. 

Commounis, 196, commons. 

Commoun weill, 160, com- 
mon good. 

Companie, 17, company. 

Companzeoun, 30, com- 
panion. 

Compassit, 58, compassed. 

Compast, 102, compassed. 

Compleit, 70, complete. 

Compt, 202, count. 

Conclude, 172, concluded. 

Condampne, 86, condemn. 

C ondampnit, 2 1 , condemned. 

Condempne, 141, condemn. 

Condempnit, 17, condemned. 

Conding, 14, fitting, becom- 
ing^ 

Conding, no, condign, 

Confes, 16, confess. 

Conforme, 37, conform. 

Conforme, 68, conformable. 

Confort, 47, comfort. 

Conforter, 40, comforter. 

Confoundis, 101, confounds. 

C onfoundit, 141, confounded. 



Glossary. 



Gonfyde, 141, confide. 

Consait, 24, conceit. 

Consaue, 1, conceive. 

Consauit, 3, conceived. 

Consecratit, consecrated. 

Considerat, 90, considered. 

Conspyre, 90, conspire. 

Constantlie, 20, constantly. 

Consumit, 92, consumed. 

Contempne, 141, contemn. 

Contemptioun, 77, contempt. 

Contenand, 40, containing. 

Contening, 2, containing. 

Contenit, contained. 

Continew, 163, continue. 

Continewis, 3, continues. 

Continewit, continued. 

Contract, 14, contracted. 

Contractit, 106, contracted. 

Contrair, 32, against. 

Contrair, 52, contrary. 

C ontrarious, 1 05 , perverse. 

Conuart, no, turn. 

Conuenientlie, 60, conveni- 
ently. 

Conuersation, 78, conver- 
sation. 

Conuert, 30, turn. 

Conuertit, 50, converted. 

Conuoy, 20, convoy. 

Conuoyis, 80, convoys. 

Conversioun, conversion. 

Correctit, 37, corrected. 

Corruptand, 158, corrupt- 
ing. 

Corps, 163, corpse. 

Cot, 131, coat. 

Couet, 8, covet. 

Couetice, 163, covetousness. 



Couetise, 175, covetousness. 

Counsellis, 82, counsels. 

Countis, 79, accounts. 

Count is, 159, reckons. 

Countrie, 63, country. 

Coupe, 81, cup. 

Courtes, 100, courteous. 

Cousing, 74, cousin. 

Cowper, Cupar. 

Crakit, 152, talked, chat- 
tered. 

Craif, 199, desire, ask. 

Craif, 66, importune. 

Craig, 94, neck. 

Craig, 94, rock. 

Creat, 18, created. 

Crib, 66, manger. 

Cribe, 43, crib. 

Creddill, 45, cradle. 

Creidis, 152, creeds. 

Creid, 180, creed. 

Creip, 153, creep. 

Cressed, 187, Cress ida. 

Croce, 39, cross. 

Croce, 29, suffering. 

Croune, 91, crown. 

Crop, 53, produce, store. 

Crop, 91, product. 

Crop and rute, 91, growth 
and root. 

Croun, 198, crown. 

Crownes, crowns. 

Crownit, 39, crowned. 

Crucifyit, 3, crucified. 

Cruell, 147, cruel. 

Cruellie, 39, cruelly. 

Cruelnes, 86, cruelty. 

Cruelteis, 99, cruelties. 

Crummis, 3$, crumbs. 



Glossary. 



269 



Crune, 179, sing. 
Cry and, 104, crying. 
Cryis, 171, cries. 
Cry it, 160, cried. 
Cryme, crime. 
Cuill, 36, cool. 
Culd, 31, could. 
Cullour, 160, colour. 
Cum, cvm, 25, come. 
Cumis, 131, comes. 
Cummand, ^>Z-> coming. 
Cummin, 144, coming. 
Cumming, 64, coming. 
Cummis, 189, comes. 
Cummer, 93, cumber. 
Cumpanie, 180, company. 
Cunnand, 14, covenant. 
Cunning, 14, skilful. 
Cuntrie, 165, country. 
Cunze, 171, coin. 
Curage, 184, courage. 
Curat, 180, curate. 
Cure, 85, care. 
Curious, 70, anxious. 
Curis, 112, car est. 
Curs, 88, curse. 
Cursand, 160, cursing. 
Cursingis, 176, curses. 
Cur sit, 153, cursed. 



D. 

Daill, 22, deal. 
Daintelie, 164, daintily. 
Daintie, 191, dainty. 
Dallis, 168, dawns. 
Dammis, 153, dams. 
Dampnabill, 155, damnable. 



Dampnatioun, 43, damna- 
tion. 

Dampnatioun, 139, con- 
demnation. 

Dampnit, 89, condemned. 

Dangeir, 197, danger. 

Dan sing, 2>2>f dancing. 

Dansit, 95, danced. 

Dant, 202, subdue. 

Dantis, 53, subdues. 

Dar, 91, dare. 

Dar, 116, dares t. 

Dartis, 87, darts. 

Dathane, 156, Dathan 

Dauid, 19, David 

Dayis, 83, days. 

Day lie, 41, daily. 

Deale, deal. 

Deand, 143, dying. 

Deceis, 35, die. 

Deceissit, 35, died. 

Deceist, 26, died. 

D eclair, 13, declare. 

Declaris, 15, declares. 

Declynde, 177, declined. 

Decoir, 52, adornment. 

Decreit, 71, sentence. 

Decretis, 82, decrees. 

Dedicat, 101, dedicated. 

Defectioun, defection. 

D efendar , 141, defender. 

Defendis, 86, defends. 

Defendit, 197, defended. 

Deryle, 190, defile. 

Defylde, 191, defiled,. 

Defyling, 190, defiling. 

Defylit, 101, defiled. 

Degest, 93, staid, sedate. 

Degre, 32, degree. 



2JO 



Glossary. 



Deid, 54, dead, 
Deid, 38, death. 
Deid, 7, deed. 
Deidis, 81, deeds. 
Deidlie, 73, deadly. 
Deidly, 126, deadly. 
Deif, 63, deaf. 
Deip, 186, deep. 
Deip, 98, depth. 
Deipest, 41, deepest. 
Deir, 168, dear. 
Deir, 144, hurt, harm. 
Deirly, dearly. 
Deit, 59, died. 
Deith, 69, death. 
Delatioun, 171, accusation. 
Delf, 70, ^%. 
D elite, 63, delight. 
Deliuer, 12, deliver. 
Deliuerit, 5, delivered. 
Deludit, 161, deluded. 
Delyte, 81, delight. 
Delyuer, 58, deliver. 
Delyuerit, 58, delivered. 
Delyuerance, 30, deliver- 
ance. 
Delyverit, delivered. 
Dence, 159, Danish. 
Departit, 95, departed. 
Dependis, 86, depends. 
Depesche, 149, send away. 
Derth, 82, famine. 
Desaitful, 167, deceitful. 
Desart, 139, deserving. 
Deseruit, 197, deserved. 
Destitude, 158, destitute. 
Destroyit, 83, destroyed. 
Desyre, 65, desire. 
Desyris, 162, desires. 



Determit, 177, determined. 

Detestit, 63, detested. 

Detfull, 55, dutiful. 

Dettis, 17, debts. 

Detteris, 17, debtors. 

Deuice, 87, device. 

Deuil, 21, devil. 

Deuill, 11, devil. 

Deuillis, 12, devil's. 

Deuillis, 24, devils. 

Deuise, 53, devise. 

Deuoir, 153, devour. 

Deuouring, 153, devouring. 

Deuotioun, 170, devotion. 

Deuyde, 31, divide. 

Deuydit, 184, divided. 

Deuyne, 17, divine. 

Deuyse, 153, devise. 

Deuyse, 82, device. 

Deuysit, 87, devised. 

Devorit, 97, devoured. 

Dew, 70, due. 

Dicht, 103, adjudged, pre- 
pared.. 

Differis, 181, differs. 

Digne, 100, worthy. 

Discend, 36, descend. 

Discendit, 69, descended. 

Disesit, 88, diseased. 

Discipuiis, 38, disciples. 

Disches, 81, dishes. 

Discripance, 146, contra- 
diction. 

Discriue, 68, describe. 

Discryue, 100, describe. 

Disherisit, 158, disinherited. 

Dispise, 187, despise. 

Dispair, 11, despair. 

Dispens, 154, dispense. 



Glossary. 



271 



Displesit, 162, displeased. 
Dispone, 128, give, dispose 

of. 
Dispyse, 133, despise. 
Dispyte, 80, despite. 
Dissaif, 82, deceive. 
Dissait, 77, deceit. 
Dissaue, 19, deceive. 
Dissauit, 49, deceived. 
Disseuerance, 5 3 , separation. 
Disswation, 186, dissuasion. 
Distres, 36, distress. 
Distroyit, 157, destroyed. 
Diuers, 159, diverse. 
Dochter, 192, daughter. 
Dochteris, 96, daughters. 
Doctouris, 91, doctors. 
Doggis, 35, dogs. 
Dois, 70, does. 
Doing, 42, action. 
Dolour, 177, sadness. 
Dome, 198, doom. 
Domeit, 26, doomed. 
Dominiks, 179, friars of 

the order of St Dominick. 
Domisday, 143, doomsday. 
Dotit, 12, endowed. 
Dotit, 94, dowered. 
Doun, down. 
Doun thring, 124, thrust 

down. 
Doutles, 184, doubtless. 
Dour, no, severe. 
Dout, 50, doubt. 
Doutles, 145, doubtless. 
Dow, 13, dove. 
Do way, 152, desist. 
Dowbill, 121, double. 
Do weill, 181, do well. 



Downe, 2, down. 

Draif, 41, drove. 

Draucht, 25, last drawn 
breath. 

Drawis, 195, draws. 

Dreid, $$, dread, fear. 

Dreidis, 7 9, fear. 

Dreidis, 101, dread. 

Dreidis, 96, dreads, fears. 

Dredour, 87, dread, terror. 

Dremis, 168, dreams. 

Drerie, 36, dreary. 

Dres, 31, address. 

Dres, 171, redress. 

Dres, 184, show. 

Dressit, Si, dressed. 

Drest, 134, procured. 

Dreuin, 185, driven. 

Driue, 24, drive. 

Driuis, 151, drives. 

Drinke, 5, drink. 

Drinkis, 6, drinks. 

Drowne, 12, drown. 

Drownit, drowned. 

Drunkinnes, 17, drunken- 
ness. 

Dryue, 177, drive. 

Dryuis, 80, drives. 

Duche, 159, Dutch. 

Dule, 27, grief. 

Dulefull, 41, doleful. 

Dulefully, 26, wofully. 

Dullie, 89, sorrowful. 

Dum, 63, dumb. 

Dunbartane, Dumbarton. 

Dundie, Dundee. 

Dunfermling, Dunfermline. 

Dure, 117, door. 

Duris, 125, endures. 



272 



Glossary. 



Dyne, 35, dine. 
Dyntis, 11c, strokes. 
Dyte, 14, indite. 
Dyte, 100, writing. 
Dyter, 25, inditer. 
Dytis, 92, indites ', states. 
Dwellaris, 82, dwellers. 



E, 86, eye. 
Eare, ear. 
Easit, 162, eased. 
Edderis, 94, adders. 
Edgeit, 87, edged. 
Editioun, edition. 
Edometis, 99, Edomites. 
Edomeitis, 91, Edomites. 
Ee, 179, eye. 
Effairis, 195, affairs. 
Effray, 202, terror. 
Efter, 25, after. 
Efter, 47, according to. 
Efterwart, 29, afterward. 
Eg, 158,^^. 
Eik, 96, also. 
Eik, 106, add to. 
Eikit, 41, added. 
Eild, 23, old age. 
Eine, 69, eyes. 
Eir, 195, ear. 
Eir, 176, auricular. 
Eird, 3, 6, 70, earth. 
Eirdlie, 167, earthly. 
Eirdly, 29, earthly. 
Eiris, 98, ears. 
Eirth, 2, ftzrf£, 
Eis, 44, ease. 



Eist, 62, ^j^. 
Eit, 1 01, eat. 
Eitin, 38, £ttte#. 
Eitis, 38, eats. 
Ellis, 91, else. 
Empreour, 148, emperor. 
Enchiridion, 74, handbook. 
Endis, 74, ends. 
Endit, 188, ended. 
Endles, 19, endless. 
Ene > 35, eyes. 
Enemie, 66, enemy. 
Enemeis, 78, enemies. 
Ennemeis, 158, enemies. 
Enteris, 54, enters. 
Enterit, entered. 
Entised, 188, enticed. 
Epecuriens, 185, Epicures. 
Epistil, 5, epistle. 
Epistill, 63, epistle. 
Equall, 67, equal. 
Equitie, 85, equity. 
Erand, 201, errand. 
Erie, 157, earl. 
Erlis, 196, earls. 
Ernestlie, 58, earnestly. 
Erre, 160, err. 
Err our, 157, error. 
Esay, 42, Isaiah. 
Eschaip, 25, escape. 
Eschew, 70, escape. 
Esperance, 53, hope. 
Espye, 87, espy. 
Estait, 24, estate. 
Estaitis, 195, estates. 
Esteme, 29, esteem. 
Eternalie, eternally. 
Euangelistis, 175, evan- 
gelists. 



Glossary. 



273 



Euangell, 62, gospel. 

Eue, 46, Eve. 

Enermore, 22, evermore. 

Euer, 82, <?i;<?r. 

Euer mair, 127, evermore. 

Euer moir, 69, evermore. 

Euerie, 35, every. 

Euerie quhair, 155, every- 
where. 

Euerilk, 82, every. 

Euerlastand, 127, everlast- 
ing. 

Euerlasting, 140, everlast- 
ing. 

Euil, euill, 3s, eev il* 

Euill, 133, wickedly. 

Euillis, 12, evils. 

Euin, 158, even. 

Euin, 63, even, evening. 

Exaltit, 88, exalted. 

Exampill, 192, example. 

Exces, 17, excess. 

Exectit, exacted. 

Exempill, 152, example. 

Exempillis, 159, examples. 

Exemptioun, 77, exemp- 
tion. 

Exerce, 101, exercise. 

Exercis, 85, exercises. 

Exercisit, exercised. 

Exersit, 101, exercised. 

Exilit, 118, exiled. 

Expellis, expels. 

Expone, 138, expound. 

Expres, 46, express. 

Expres, 158, expressly. 

Exyle, 42, exile. 

Eyis, 82, eyes. 

Ezechias, Hezekiah. 



Fa, 37,/ok 
Factis, 190, deeds. 
Faggat, 92, faggot. 
Faggottis, 12 3i faggots. 
Faid, 8 3, fade. 
Faill, 40, fail. 
Failzeit, 88, failed. 
Faine, 57, fain. 
Fainest, 3$, most willingly. 
Faining, 188, feigning. 
Fair, 11$, fare. 
Fair, 42, fare, go. 
Fais, 69, foes. 
Fals, 4 7, false. 
Falset, 1 7 8, falsehood. 
Fait, 31, want. 
Fand, 70, found. 
Fang, catch, seize, grasp. 
Fant, 31, faint. 
Fantasie, 201, fancy. 
Fastand, 6, fasting. 
Fastit, 180, fasting. 
Fatell, 162, fatal. 
Fatheris, father s, fathers. 
Faultie, 54, typ. mistake for 
Faultit, faulted. 
Faultis, faults. 
Fauour, 178, favour. 
Fauoris, 160, favours. 
Faute, 78, fault. 
Fautes, So, faults. 
Fay, 202, faith. 
Fayne, 187, feign. 
Febill, 166, feeble. 
Febilnes, 1 09 , feebleness. 
Fecht, iyj,fght. 
Feid, 17, feed. 



2 74 



Glossary, 



Feid, 53, enmity, quarrel. 

Feidis, 164, feeds, 

Feild, 92, field. 

Feildis, 80, fields. 

Feill, 15, know; 96, feel. 

Feind, 169, fiend, devil. 

Feindis, 27, devil's; 45, 

fiends. 
Feinzetnes, 77, feignedness. 
Feir, 41, fair, stro?ig. 
Feir, 19 s, fear. 
Feird, 113, afraid. 
Feirfull, 198, fearful. 
¥€\st, feast. 
Feit, 32,/^/. 
Feit, 1 j 9, gave fees. 
Fell, 15, £«?«. 
Fell, 45, rrW. 
Fenzeit, 47, feigned. 
Fenzeitnes, 5 8 , feignedness. 
Ferleis, 97, wonders. 
Feruent, 70, fervent. 
Feruentlie, fervently. 
Feruentnes, 58, fervour. 
Fill forth, iz 3, fulfil. 
Fillit, yo, filled. 
Fing, 72, bundle of thread. 
Firme, 42, firm. 
Firmelie, 146, firmly. 
Fit, 182, measure, tune. 
Fixit, 129, fixed. 
Flatterie, 7 '9, flattery. 
Fleand, 9 3, flying. 
Fie, 22, fly from. 
Flee, 26,^. 
Fleiche, 180, flatter. 
Fleis, 90, flies. 
Flemit, 160, banished. 
Flesche, iS, flesh. 



Fleschely, 29, fleshly. 
Fleschlie, 6 5, fleshly. 
Fleshe, 5%, flesh. 
Fleshlie, 76, fleshly. 
Flie, 181,^. 
Fling, 123, throw. 
Flit, 89, remove. 
Flockis, I'j 2, flocks. 
Flour, 26, flower. 
Floure, 146, flower. 
Flow, 88, waver. 
Flude, 92, flood. 
Flureis, % 6, flourish. 
Flycht, is 2, flight. 
Fo, 41, fore. 

Foirbearis, 149, ancestors. 
Foirbearis, 1 9 6 , forefathers. 
Foirfather, 174, forefather. 
Folke, 120, folk. 
Folkis, 170, folk. 
Folie, 139, folly. 
Follit, 102, pursued, chased. 
Followis, 6, follows. 
Followit, 47 ', followed. 
Fontaine, 6 8 , fountain. 
Fontane, 5, fountain. 
Forbiddin, 160, forbidden. 
For caus, 38, because. 
Forfair, 167, perish. 
Forgeue, 115, forgive. 
F orgeuin , 3 7 , forgiven. 
Forgeuis, 1 o 1 , forgives. 
Forgiue, 4, forgive. 
Forleit, 99, forsake. 
Forloir, 193, lost. 
Forlorne, 30, lost. 
Forme, 46, form. 
Formit, 120, formed. 
Forsaik, 123, forsake. 



Glossary. 



275 



Forsuith, 62, forsooth, 

Forsuke, 133, forsook. 

Forthinkis, 155, repents. 

Fortoun, 187, fortune. 

Fortounis, 18 9, fortunes, 

Forzet, 58, forget, 

Forzet, 26, forgot. 

Forzettin, 99, forgotten. 

Foster, 17 9, progeny. 

Fosterit, 34, fostered, 

Foule, 1 7 2, foul. 

Foulis, 101, fowls, 

Foullar, 9 7, fowler, 

Foundatouris, 163, foun- 
ders. 

Founding, 72, founds foun- 
dation, 

Fourt, 2, fourth, 

Fourtie, 6, forty, 

Fra, 8 6, from, 

Fra hand, 31, immediately, 

Fragilitie, 5 5 , frailty, 

Fragill, 11, fragile, 

Fragill, 106, frail, 

Fragylitie, 1 4 , frailty, 

Frances, 179, Francis, 

Fraternitie, 176, fraternity. 

Fray, 24, from, 

Fre, 66, free, 

Fre, noble, 

Fred, 200, freed, 

Fredome, 98, freedom, 

Freind, 37, friend, 

Freindis, 182, friends, 

Freir, 179, friar, 

Freiris, 152, friars. 



Freith, 41, release, liberate. 

Frelage, 200, right of heri- 
tage. 

Frelie, 8 5, freely. 

Frely, 22, freely. 

Frensie, 187, frenzy. 

Fresche, 23, fresh, 

Frute, is, fruit. 

Fry, 165, spawn. 

Fridayis, 180, Fridays. 

Foxe, 1 5 3, fox. 

Fude, 6s, food. 

Fuffe, 164, 170, puff. 

Ful, 1 01, full. 

Fule, 8 7, fool. 

Fulfill, 31,///. 

Fulfillit, 1 -j, fulfilled, 

Fulis, is 2, fools. 

Fulische, 89, foolish. 

Fund, 195, found, fond. 

Fundatioun, 186, founda- 
tion. 

Fundyit, 69, stiff, frozen. 

Fure, 1 j 9, fared. 

Furth, j 1, forth. 

Furthe, forth. 

Furthschaw, 79, declare, 
show forth. 

Furthwith, 152, forthwith. 

Fute, 94, foot. 

Fyfe, Fife. 

Fylde, 161, defiled. 

Fylth, 92, filth. 

Fyne, 28, end. 

Fyre, 25 , fire. 

Fyue, 36, five. 



2/6 



GloSSi 



'ary. 



Ga, 5°, go. 

Gadderit, 164, gathered, 

Gagioun, 156, slander, 

Gaif, 20, gave. 

Gaine, 187, gain, 

Gaine, 156, gone, 

Gaip, 153, gape. 

Gais, 20, goes, 

Gaist, 39, ghost, spirit. 

Gait, 75, w<2/. 

Galles, Gauls, 

Gallons, 152, gallows. 

Gane, is 3, gone. 

Ganestand, 43, withstand. 

Gang, 108, go. 

Gar, 14, make, compel. 

Garding, 120, garden, 

Garris, 167, causes, compels, 

Gart, 34, compelled. 

Gat, 190, begot. 

Gat, 1 si, got. 

Gaue, 37, gave. 

Ga will, 80, go astray. 

Gedde, 163, Ged. 

Geif, 88, give. 

Geir, 26, riches, wealth. 

Gentill, 121, gentle. 

Gentilnes, 18, gentleness. 

Geuand, 54, giving. 

Geue, 150, if, 

Geue, 76, give, 

Geuin, 65, given, 

Geuis, 26, gives, 

Geuis, 87, gives t, 

Gevin, given, 

Gif, 85, give, 

Gif, 34, //: 



Giftes, gifts. 
Giftis, 65, gifts. 
Gilt, 95, gilded. 
Gilt, 13s, guilt. 
Giltles, 2, giltless. 
Giue, 29, ^/w. 
Giue, 167, if. 
Giuen, 114, given. 
Ghaist, 3, ghost. 
Glaid, 194, glad. 
Glaidlie, 120, gladly. 
Glaidly, 12 4, gladly, 
Glaidnes, 33, gladness. 
Glaidness, 99, gladness. 
Glaik, 156, trifle, spend time. 
Glas, 189, mirror. 
Glie, 181, glee. 
Gloir, 64, glory. 
Gloird, 71, gloried. 
Gloiris, glories. 
Glorie, 62, glory. 
Gloris, 44, gloriest. 
Gluttoun, 34, glutton. 
Gluttounis, 3S> glutton s. 
Gnashe, gnash. 
Goddis, 52, God's. 
Goddis, 152, Gods. 
Godheid, 66, Godhead. 
Godis, 2, gods. 
Godles, 26, godless. 
Godlie, 6s, godly. 
Goldin, golden. 
Gospell, 73, gospel. 
Gothis, Goths. 
Gottin, 149, begot. 
Gottin, 181, got, won. 
Gouernance, 75, govern- 
ment. 
Gouerne, 107, govern. 



Glossary. 



277 



Gouerning, 72, government. 
Gouernour, 50, governor, 
Gouernouris, ^2, governors. 
Gowne, 9 1 , gown. 
Graip, 202, feel, grope. 
Graith, 184, clothing. 
Graith, 69, prepare. 
Graithit, 16, prepared ', made 

ready. 
Grantis, 101, grants. 
Grantit, 6, granted. 
Gras, 187, grass. 
Grasse, 83, grass. 
Grat, 71, wept. 
Gratious, 45 , gracious. 
Graue, 39, grave. 
Grauin, 2, graven. 
Grauit, 13, buried. 
Gre, 90, agree. 
Gredie, 65, greedy. 
Gredynes, 18 5, greediness. 
Greif, 102, grief. 
Greif, 83, grieve. 
Greit, 35, great. 
Greitar, 113, greater. 
Greitest, 44, greatest. 
Greitlie, 155, greatly. 
Greitnes, 100, greatness. 
Grene, 179, green. 
Gress, 202, grass. 
Greting, 103, weeping. 
Gretumlie, 125, greatly. 
Greuance, 7 5, grievance. 
Greuand, 8, grieving. 
Greue, 39, grieve. 
Greuis, 172, grieves. 
Greuis, 134, griefs. 
Greuit, 19, grieved. 
Greuous, 92, grievous. 



Greuously, 26, grievously. 

Grevovs, 132, grievous. 

Grip, 126, lay hold, seize. 

Grit, 59, great. 

Ground, 87, whetted. 

Groundit, 141, grounded. 

Ground- stane, 176, foun- 
dation stone. 

Gruncheand, 26, groaning 
and grinding the teeih. 

Gude, 65, good. 

Gude, 45, possession. 

Gude, 8 5, property. 

Gudis, 34, goods. 

Gudlie, no, goodly. 

Gude-man, 174, good man. 

Gudnes, 68, goodness. 

Guk, guk, 163, cry of a 
fowl. 

Gyand, 82, giant. 

Gyde, 20, guide. 

Gydis, 9 2, guides. 

Gydit, 18 4, guided. 

Gyis, 19 5, fashion. 

Gylis, 182, guile. 

Gylt, 116, guilt. 

Gyltie, 5, guilty. 

Gyrne, ij5,gin, snare. 

Gyrne, 84, grin. 

Gyrth, 94, sanctuary. 



H. 

Habitakill, 78, habitation. 
Habite, 131, habit. 
Haboundantlie, 115, abun- 
dantly. 
Hadington, Haddington. 



278 



Glossary. 



Haif, 58, have. 

Hail, 81, w hole. 

Haill, 53, whole, wholly. 

Haill, 73, hail. 

Haillelie, 56, wholly. 

Haillely, 192, wholly. 

Haillis, 149, heals. 

Haillit, 59, healed. 

Hairt, 146, heart. 

Haist, 153, haste. 

Haist, 90, hasten. 

Haistely, 26, hastily. 

Haistie, 87, hasty. 

Haistelie, 32, hastily. 

Haistines, 186, haste. 

Halt, 70, hate. 

Haitit, 158, hated. 

Hald, 30, hold. 

Haldin, held, compelled. 

Haldis, 168, holds. 

Halie, 139, holy. 

Halines, 115, holiness. 

Hallowit, 4, hallowed. 

Haly, 13, ho lily. 

Haly, 28, holy. 

Haly croce, holy cross. 

Haly Gaist, Holy Ghost. 

Haly kirk, 162, holy church. 

Halynes, 183, holiness. 

Haly Spreit, 47, Holy Spirit. 

Haly Wryte, 48, Holy Scrip- 
ture. 

Hame, 32, home. 

Handis, 89, hands. 

Hand-madin, 125, hand- 
maiden. 

Hand write, 71, hand-writ- 
ing. 

Hang, 71, hung. 



Hangit, 162, hanged. 

Hant, 81, to frequent. 

Happin, 192, happen. 

Hard, 50, heard. 

Harkin, 202, hearken. 

Harlatrie, 34, harlotry. 

Harlatrie, villany. 

Harlottis, 190, harlots. 

Harnes, 91, harness, 
mour. 

Harnest, 182, armed. 

Harnis, 99, brains. 

Harpe, 81, harp. 

Harpis, 99, harps. 

Hart, 65, heart. 

Hartfullie, heartily. 

Hartfully, 11, cordially. 

Hartis, 169, hearts. 

Hartis, 47, heart's. 

Hartly, 41, beloved. 

Hartly, 66, hearty, cordial. 

Hauand, 102, having. 

Haue, 74, have. 

Hauing, 116, having. 

Hauld, 32, hold, keep. 

Hay ! 6 1 , 1 6 8 , a joyous ex- 
clamation. 

Hecht, 35, called. 

Hecht, 53, promise, engage. 

Hecht, 17, 10 7 , promised. 

Hed, 144, had. 

Heich, 47, high. 

Heid, 170, head. 

Heill, 114, health. 

Heill, 170, heel. 

Heip, 101, heap. 

Heipand, 54, heaping. 

Heipis, 81, heaps. 

Heir, hear. 



Glossary, 



279 



Heir, 25, here. 

Heir and thair, 182, here 

and there. 
Heirfoir, 69, for this. 
Heirfoir, 76, therefore. 
Heiris, 101, hears. 
Heisit, 180, heaved. 
Heit, 60, heat. 
Helenis, 186, Helens. 
Helis, 158, Eli's. 
Hellis, 52, hell's. 
Helpis, 26, helps. 
Helpit, 106, helped. 
Helth, 63, health. 
Hely, 157, Eli. 
Helias, 157, Elijah. 
Heretyke, 166, heretic. 
Heretykis, 160, heretics. 
Herisie, 50, heresy. 
Heryit, 11 5 , plundered. 
Hes, 30, has. 
Hes, 18, hast. 
Hethin, 51, heathen. 
Heuie, 25, heavy. 
Heuin, 37, heaven. 
Heuines, 114, heaviness. 
Heuinlie, 52, heavenly. 
Heuinly, 35, heavenly. 
Heuinnis, 69, heavens. 
Heuinnis, 167, heavens. 
Heuy, 126, heavy. 
Heuynes, 105, heaviness. 
Hew, 70, hue. 
Hicht, 92, height. 
Hidder, 198, hither. 
Hiddertill, 112, hitherto. 
Hidder socht, 193, brought 

hither. 
Hie, 17, high. 



Hiest, 18, 14$, highest. 
Hillis, 95, hills. 
Him sell, 61, himself. 
Hing, 46, hang. 
Hinmest, 163, the last. 
Hippis, 180, hips. 
Hir, 45, her. 
Hirdis, 164, shepherds. 
Historyis, 191, histories. 
Hoipit, 108, hoped. 
Honest, 32, respectable. 
Honouris, 66, honours. 
Hony, 184, honey. 
Hopeand, 108, hoping. 
Home, 105, outlawry. 
Hornis, 91, horns. 
Horribill, 196, horrible. 
Hors, 8, horse. 
Hors, 172, horses. 
Hounger, 69, hunger. 
Houngrie, 31, hungry. 
Hount, 161, hunt. 
Hous, 2, house. 
Housis, 196, houses. 
Hude, 91, hood. 
Hudis, 169, hoods. 
Huke, 80, hook. 
Humanitie, 66, humanity. 
Humbill, 68, humble. 
Humbilnes, 66, humility. 
Humelie, 96, humbly. 
Humill, 115, humble. 
Hunder, 160, hundred. 
Hundis, 153, hounds. 
Hundreth, 161, hundred. 
Huntis, 153, hunts. 
Hure, 164, whore. 
Huredome, 158, whoredom. 
Hurklit, 91, folded. 



28o 



Glossary. 



Hurtis, 78, hurts. 
Hyde, 169, hide. 
Hymne, 99, hymn. 
Hymnis, hymns. 
Hyne, 199, hence. 
Hypocresie, 181, hypocrisy. 
Hypocrisie, 87, hypocrisy. 
Hypocritis, 91, hypocrites. 
Hyrdis, 44, shepherds. 
Hyre, 197, hire. 



L 



Identlie, 22, diligently. 

Idilnes, 173, idleness. 

Idolateris, 152, idolaters. 

Idolatrie, 50, idolatry. • 

I doles, 63, idols. 

I doll, 91, idle. 

Ilk, 25, every, each. 

Imagerie, 176, idols. 

Imagerie, 172, image wor- 
ship. 

Imagis, 95, images. 

Imploir, 69, implore. 

I mprentit , imprinted. 

Impyre, 92, empire. 

Impunge, 157, impugn. 

In, 41, into. 

Inche, 202, inch. 

Includit, 161, included. 

Inclusit, 166, enclosed. 

Inclyne, 114, incline. 

In contrair, 87, against. 

In contrarie, 97, in oppo- 
sition. 

Incres, 57, increase. 

Incressis, increases. 



In deid, 65, indeed. 
Indure, 89, endure. 
Indure, 50, harden. 
Induris, 14, endures. 
Indurit, 163, hardened. 
Indurit, 155, endured. 
Infect, 191, infected. 
Inglis, 159, English. 
Ingrait, 135, ungrateful. 
Inherite, 84, inherit. 
Innocens, 6i, innocence. 
Innocentis, 30, innocents. 
Inquyre, 87, inquire. 
Inspyre, 70, inspire. 
Institute, 14, instituted. 
Instructioun, instruction. 
Instructit, 178, instructed. 
Inteir, 146, entire. 
Intelligens, 186, knowledge, 

intelligence. 
In till, 47, into. 
Intill, 66, into. 
Intill, 79, unto. 
Into, 63, in. 
Inuaid, 41, invade. 
Inuent, 176, invent. 
Inuentioun, 186, invention. 
Inuentit, 152, invented. 
Inuerkething, Inverkeith- 

ing. 
In wart, 40, inward. 
In wart, 91, inwardly. 
Inwartlie, 131, inwardly. 
In weir, 197, doubtful. 
Ioy, 20, joy. 
Isaack, 107, Isaac. 
I sack, 70, Isaac. 
Isackis, 70, Isaac's. 
I say, 37, Isaiah. 



Gloss a. 



ry. 



28l 



Ismalitis, 91, Ishmaelites. 
Isope, 107, hyssop. 



J- 

Jabene, 91, Jabin. 
Jacobinis, 179, Jacobins. 
Jacobis, 95, Jacob's. 
Jakmen, 172, men in ar- 
mour. 
Jelous, 200, jealous. 
Jesew, 69, Jesus. 
Jet, 182, gad about. 
J ewes, 71, Jews. 
Jewis, 147, Jews. 
Jewis, 137, Jew's. 
Johne, 59, John. 
Jordane, 95, Jordan. 
Jornay, 32, journey. 
Josaph, 73, Joseph. 
Josephis, 192, Joseph's. 
Josias, 157, Josiah. 
Josue, Joshua. 
Joye,>> 
Joyes,y^. 
Joyis, 45, joys. 
Joyne, 192,7*0/^. 
Joy nit, 12, joined. 
Jouk, 91, nod. 
Joukis, 169, bowings. 
Juda, 71, Judah. 
Judethis, 192, Judith's. 
Judgeing, 106, judgment. 
Judgeit, 106, judged. 
Juge, 197, judge. 
Jugement ,158, judgment. 
Junii, June. 
Jurie, 135, Jewry. 



K. 

Kaill, 180, broth. 
Keild, 158, killed. 
Keill, 161, kill. 
Keine, 166, keen. 
Keip, 131, heed. 
Keip, 155, keep. 
Keipar, 142, keeper. 
Keiping, 48, keeping. 
Keipis, 2, keeps. 
Keipit, 127, kept. 
Ken, 48, know. 
K'end, 25, knew. 
Kend, 148, know. 
Kend, 198, known. 
Kend, 30, made known. 
Kendlit, 97, kindled. 
Kest, 41, cast. 
Keyis, 6, keys. 
Killis, 194, kills. 
Killit, 137, killed. 
Kin, 7, kind. 
Kin, 64, kind, sort. 
Kin, 70, kindred. 
Kincarne of Neill, Kincar- 
dine O'Neill. 
Kingdome, 4, kingdom. 
Kingis, 154, kings. 
Kinrik, 11, kingdom. 
Kinroscheir, Kinross -shire. 
Kirk, 43, church. 
Kis, 138, kiss. 
Kissit, 32, kissed. 
Kittill, 179, tickle. 
Knaw, 36, know. 
Knaw, 79, known. 
Knawand, s^-> knowing. 



2tf2 



Glossary. 



Knawers, 16, people who 

know. 
Knawin, 118, known. 
Knawis, 154, knowest. 
Knawis, 184, knows. 
Knawledge, 27, knowledge. 
Knelland, 195, knelling. 
Kneill, 170, kneel. 
Kneis, 45, knees. 
Knicht, 24, knight. 
Knittis, 130, knits. 
Knot, 131, pithy saying. 
Ky, 44, cows. 
Kyd, 2>Z, kid. 
Kyis, 171, cows. 
Kyithit, 40, shewn. 
Kynde, 36, kind. 
Kynde, 56, sort, manner. 
Kyndely, 32, kindly. 
Kyndnes, 46, kindness. 
Kyson, 92, Kishon. 



L. 

Labouris, 130, labours. 

Ladin, 25, laden. 

Laif, S3) the rest. 

Laik, lack, need. 

Laip, 153, lap. 

Lair, 11, lore, learning. 

Lait, 180, late. 

Lait and air, 142, late and 

early. 
Laithly, ^$, loathsome. 
Laithsum, 191, loathsome. 
Lambe, 37, lamb. 
Lambes, Lammas. 
Lambis, 95, lambs. 



Lamit, 59, lame. 
Lammis, 153, lambs. 
Landis, 178, lands. 
Lane, 79, alone. 
Lang, 48, long. 
Langest, longest. 
Langing, 192, longing. 
Lap, 95, leaped. 
Lardounis, 179, lumps. 
Laser, 23, leisure. 
Lassis, 180, lasses, girls. 
Lat, 118, let. 
Latine, Latin. 
Laubour, 89, labour. 
Lauch, 84, laugh. 
Laude, 71, blessing. 
Laude, 100, praise. 
Laudes, 137, praises. 
Lave, 96, the remainder, 

the rest. 
Law, 66, low. 
Lawder, Lauder. 
Lawis, 166, laws. 
Lawit, 170, lay. 
Lawly, 66, lowly. 
Lawlynes, 38, lowliness. 
Lawrel, 86, laurel. 
Lay, 124, pledge. 
Layit, 195, laymen. 
Leand, 64, lying. 
Lection, 196, lesson. 
Legall, 71, legal. 
Leiche, 159, loiter •, tarry. 
Leid, 27, lead. 
Leid, 14, watchword. 
Leidand, 151, leading. 
Leif, 123, lea've. 
Leif, 84, life. 
Leif, 64, live* 



Glossary. 



283 



Leifis, 193, leaves. 

Leigis, lieges. 

Leill, 142, constant. 

Leing, 77, lying. 

Leip, leap. 

Leir, 76, tazr«. 

Leirne, 170, learn. 

Leirning, 42, learning. 

Leirnit, 160, learned. 

Leis, 168, //>j. 

Leist, 30, least. 

Leist, 36, lest. 

Lely, 146, //7y. 

Leit, 169, lied. 

Len, 79, /<?#*/. 

Lenth, 49, length. 

Les, 12, less. 

Les and moir, 64, small and 

great. 
Lesingis, 168, lies. 
Lest, 82, last, endure. 
Lestand, 144, lasting. 
Lestis, 29, lasts. 
Lestit, 180, lasted. 
Lettis, 125, lets. 
Leuand, 14, living. 
Leuch, 102, laughed. 
Leue, 64, leave. 
Leue, 24, live. 
Leuing, 114, living, life. 
Leuis, 181, leaves. 
Leuis, 83, lives. 
Leuit, 187, lived. 
Leuittis, 158, Levites. 
Leyn, 199, lean. 
Libertie, 67, liberty. 
Licharie, 185, lechery. 
Licharus, 190, lecherous. 
Licherie, 65, lechery. 



Licht, 78, enlighten. 
Licht, 29, light. 
Lichtin, 127, enlighten. 
Lichtleis, 70, slights. 
Lichtly, 95, lightly. 
Lickand, 35, licking. 
Lier, 154, liar. 
Liftit, 3.9, lifted. 
Lin, 102, rock, precipice. 
Lippis, 77, lips. 
List, 15, chooses. 
Listis, 95, lists. 
Litill, 195, little. 
Liue, 51, live. 
Lois, 174, lose. 
Loissit, 23, lost. 
Loist, 34, lost. 
Lollaris, 11, heretics , Lol- 
lard's. 
Lordis, 2, Lords. 
Lordis, 30, Lord's. 
Lose, 70, loss. 
Loste, 189, lost. 
Lot, 131, possession. 
Loudlie, 168, loudly. 
Loue, 100, love. 
Louing, 48, blessing. 
Louing, in, praise. 
Loup, 95, jump. 
Loupe, 96, leap. 
Louse, 168, loose. 
Lownis, 185, idlers, villains. 
Lowreis, 183, foxes. 
Lowse, 193, loose. 
Lowsit, 139, loosed. 
Lowsing, 6, loosing. 
Lowsis, 18, looses. 
Lufaris, 34, lovers, friends. 
Lufe, 62, love. 



Glossary. 



Luffis, 126, loves 
Lufis, 81, loves. 
Lufit, 201, loved. 
Luifaris, 122, lovers. 
Luifis, 161, loves. 
Luiffing, 119, loving. 
Luiffis, 85, loves. 
Luk, 30, Luke. 
Luke, 29, look. 
Luking, 6s, looking. 
Lukis, 82, looks. 
Lustie, Si, pleasant. 
Lusting, 191, lustful. 
Lustis, 27, lusts. 
Lustit, 192, lusted. 
Lusum, 100, lovely. 
Ly, 66, lie. 
Lychorie, 70, lechery. 
Lychorus, 190, lecherous. 
Lyfe, 20, life. 
Lyfis, 179, lives. 
Lyftit, 35, lifted. 
Lyis, 43, lies. 
Lyke, 37, like. 
Lykenes, 138, likeness. 
Lykis, 153, likes. 
Lykit, 133, liked. 
Lymmaris, 180, worthless 

fellows. 
Lymmerie, 180, villany. 
Lyonnis, 94, lions. 
Lyoun, 71, lion. 
Lyre, 163, flesh, skin. 
Lytill, 65, little. 
Ly till quhile, 8 3 , a short time. 
Lytill stound, 3 3, short time, 

a short space. 
Lyue, 143, life. 
Lyues, 96, lives. 



M. 

Ma, 156, more. 

Madionitis, 91, Midianites. 

Magnifie, 43 > magnify. 

Mahomete, Mahomet. 

Maid, 61, made. 

M aidenheid, 127, maiden- 
hood. 

Maiestie, 67, majesty. 

Maij, 120, May. 

Mair, 12, wore. 

Mair, 38, greater. 

Mair and min, 38, greater 
and less. 

Maist, 82, most, greatest. 

Maister, 153, master. 

Majestie, 68, majesty. 

Mak, 32, make. 

Makand, $$, making. 

Makis, 152, makes. 

Makis, 19, makest. 

Maledie, 94, malady. 

Maling, 49, malign. 

Malitious, 185, malicious. 

Mammontrie, 63, idolatry. 

Man, 42, must. 

Maner, 152, manner. 

Maneir, 30, manner. 

Manesweir, 65, perjure. 

Manis, 8, mans. 

Mannis, 85, mans. 

Mankynd, 76, mankind. 

Mankynde, 73, mankind. 

Mankynde, 59, human na- 
ture. 

Mantene, 91, maintain. 

Marche, March. 

Manage, 165, marriage. 



Glossary. 



285 



Marie, The Virgin Mary. 
Marie, 154, marry. 
Marrit, 162, marred. 

Mark, 93, dark. 

Mark nor licht, 93, dark 
nor light. 

Martine, Martin. 

Maryit, 165, married. 

Materis, 191, matters. 

Matussalem, 146, Methuse- 
lah. 

Mayd, 123, maid. 

Meane, 186, means. 

Mediatour, 67, mediator. 

Meik, 142, meek. 

Meiklie, 120, meekly. 

Meine, 166, mean. 

Meir, 139, mere. 

Meit, 18, meat. 

Meit, 32, meet, ft. 

Mekill, 165, much. 

Mekle, 2>3^ much. 

Mell, 62, become acquainted 
with. 

Melodie, melody. 

Memberis, 70, members. 

Mend, 46, amend. 

Mendis, 52, amends. 

Menis, ^3t means. 

Menis, 83, mens. 

Mennis, 30, mens. 

Menstraly, 2>3^ minstrelsy. 

Mercat, 165, market. 

Mercie, 2, mercy. 

Mercy full, 48, merciful. 

Mercyfullie, 10, mercifully. 

Mercyles, 103, without 
mercy. 

Mercyles, 155, merciless. 



Mers, Merse. 

Meruellis, 37, wonders. 

Meruellous, 111, marvel- 
lous. 

Meruellouslie, 97, marvel- 
lously. 

Merynes, ^^, merryness. 

Mes, 183, the Mass. 

Messis, 181, Masses. 

Mesure, 41, measure. 

Meter, 6, metre. 

Micht, 32, might, power. 

Michtie, 73, mighty. 

Michtis, 66, powers. 

Michtis, 93, strength, 
power. 

Michtiest, 92, mightiest. 

Michtfullie, 9 4, with power. 

Middis, middle. 

Midnicht, 79, midnight. 

Min, 38, less. 

Minde, mind. 

Minsing, 188, mincing. 

Mirk, 179, dark. 

Mirkness, 126, darkness. 

Mirrie, 182, merry. 

Mirrour, 196, mirror. 

Mirrylie, merrily. 

Mirrynes, 67, mirth. 

Mis, 109, miss. 

Mis, 46, amiss. 

Mis, 60, misdeed, sin, fault. 

Misauenture, 94, misadven- 
ture. 

Mischeuouslie, 159, mis- 
chievously. 

Misdeid, 55, wrongdoing. 

Misericord, 49, merciful. 

Miserie, 69, misery. 



286 



Glossary. 



M isfair, 196, fare ill. 

Misfortoun, 94, misfortune. 

Misknaw, 64 ; Misknawis, 
166, ignorant of. 

Misken, no, be ignorant of. 

Misken, 84, misunderstand. 

Miskennit, 113, was igno- 
rant of. 

Misknew, 71, knew not. 

Misreule, 172, misrule. 

Misthryue, 164, thrive 
amiss. 

Mo, 58, more. 

Moabitis, 91, Moabites. 

Mockit, 102, mocked. 

Moir, 57, more. 

Moitis, 96, motes. 

Molde, 82, 163, earth. 

Mon, 198, must. 

Mone, 193, moan. 

Monence, Monance. 

Monethis, 74, months. 

Monkis, 169, monks. 

Monstouris, 152, monsters. 

Mont, 75, mount. 

Montanis, 95, mountains. 

Mony, 71, many. 

Monyfald, 106, manifold. 

Mony fauld, 167, manifold. 

Morne, 198, morrow. 

Mortifie, 37, mortify. 

Mot, 68, may. 

Mot, 103, might. 

Moue, 27, move. 

Mouit, 132, moved. 

Mountit, 185, mounted. 

Mouswobs, 96, spider webs. 

Moyses, 36, Moses. 

Mucke, 92, dung. 



Mufe, 83, move. 

Mufe the not, 83, be not 
disturbed. 

Muifit, 95, moved* 

Mulis, 172, mules. 

Mumleit, 152, mumbled. 

Mumling, 183, mumbling. 

Mummillit, 176, mumbled. 

Murne, 24, mourn. 

Murning, 77, mourning. 

Murnis, 122, mourns \ 

Murther, 3, murder. 

Mvsing, 145, 155, musing. 

Mylde, 73, mild. 

Myle, 160, mile. 

Mynde, 36, 159, mind. 

Myndes, mines, remem- 
brance. 

Myndis, 28, minds. 

Myne, 42, mine. 

Myne, 65, my, mine. 

Myrrie, 46, merry. 

Myrthis, 146, gladness. 

Myster, 96, need. 

Mysteris, 66, needs \ 

Myster maist, 96, greatest 
need. 

Mysticall, 71, mystical. 

Myte, 154, mite. 



N. 

Na, 6, no, not. 
Naillit, 122, nailed. 
Nalit, 134, nailed. 
Na kin wise, 64, nowise. 
Na kin wyse, 7, no manner 
of way. 



Glossary. 



287 



Nane, 74, no, none. 
Nathing, $d, nothing. 
Natiounis, 74, nations. 
Natiue, 14, native. 
Natiuitie, 67, nativity. 
Necessarie, 4, necessary. 
Neid, 10, need. 
Neidis, 16, needest. 
Neir, 101, near. 
Neir, 168, nearly. 
Neist, 144, next. 
Nek, 157, neck. 
Nettis, 87, nets. 
Neuer, 38, never. 
Nicht, 5, wifg-itf. 
Nichtbour, 72, neighbour. 
Nichtbouris, 3, neighbours. 
Nixt, 72, »«tf. 
Nobilest, 38, noblest. 
Nobill, noble. 
Nobles, 202, nobleness. 
Nocht, 172, not. 
Nocht, 49, nothing. 
Noddis, 169, nods. 
Noe, Noah. 

Noisthirlis, 96, nostrils. 
None, 173, noon. 
Notis, 195, notes. 
Nouembris, November. 
Nouther, 145, neither. 
Nowellis, 43, news. 
Nowther, 159, neither. 
Noy, 24, annoyance. 
Noyis, 78, annoys. 
Noyis, 88, noise. 
Nukit, 171, nooked. 
Numerat, 176, numbered. 
Nunne, 165, nun. 
Nunnis, 180, nuns. 



Nureist, 91, nourished. 
Nurisching, 79, nourish- 
ing. 
Nycht, 151, night. 
Nymbill, 182, nimble. 
Nyse, 132, gross. 



O. 

Obeyis, 82, obeys. 
Obey it, 33, obeyed. 
Oblatiounis, 195, oblations. 
Obserue, 85, observe. 
Obseruance, 55, observance. 
Obseruis, 79, observes. 
Obsoluit, 154, absolved. 
Obteine, 117, obtain. 
Obtene, 12, obtain. 
Occour, 79, usury. 
Och, 138, Oh! 
Ocht, 86, ought. 
Ocht, 90, ought, anything. 
Od, 176, odd. 
Odoreuin, 176, odd or even. 
Of, 171, off. 

Offendand, 11, offending. 
Offendit, 195, offended. 
Offeringis, 195, offerings. 
Offerit, 151, offered. 
Oist, host. 
Oliue, 114, olive. 
One, 20, on. 
Onles, 153, unless. 
Onlie, 56, only. 
On Hue, 96, alive. 
On lyfe, 33, alive. 
Ony, 91, any. 
Ony wayis, 36, anywise. 



Glossary. 



Ophni, 157, Hophni. 

Oppin, 127, open. 

Oppinnis, 18, opens. 

Oppres, 12, oppress. 

Ordand, 13, ordained. 

Ordour, 179, order. 

Ordouris, 120, orders. 

Organis, 81, organs. 

Ornamentis, 81, ornaments. 

Osan, 174, Hosanna. 

Ouer, 120, over. 

Ouercum, 126, overcome. 

O uerest, 3 8, overest, greatest. 

Ouergane, 96, overrun. 

Ouer gang, 94, go over. 

Ouergang, 124, oppress. 

Ouerlaid, 155, overlaid, op- 
pressed. 

Ouerquhelmit, 97, over- 
whelmed. 

Ouerthrawin, 155, over- 
thrown. 

Ouerthrew, 91, overthrew. 

Ouid, 187, Ovid. 

Ouir, 202, over, too. 

Ouirdriue, 23, overdrive, 
spend, pass. 

Ouirquhelme, 99, over- 
whelm. 

Ouir set, 23, overset. 

Ouirspred, 151, overspread. 

Ouirthraw, 102, overthrow. 

Ouklie, 184, weekly. 

Out her, 124, either. 

Out tak, 128, except. 

Out throw, 124, throughout. 

Out wart, 91, outwardly. 

Overthrowen, overthrown. 

Ovr, 15, our. 



Oxe, 66, ox. 
Oxin, 44, oxen. 



Pacience, 29, patience. 

Pacientlie, 29, patiently. 

Pagane, 178, pagan. 

Paine, 69, pain. 

Paine, 17, suffering. 

Paintit ,173, painted. 

Paip, 169, pope. 

Paipis, 19 5, popes. 

Paith, 1 1 j, path. 

Paithis, 8 5, paths. 

Paith way, 117, pathway. 

Pane, 167, pain. 

Panis, 68, pains. 

Pantounis, 171, slippers. 

Papis, 1 7 2, popes. 

Papistrie, 186, papistry. 

Parabill, 30, parable. 

Paramouris, 163, para- 
mours. 

Pareis, 180, Paris, parish. 

Pardonis, 153, pardons. 

Pardounis, 14, pardons. 

Partis, parts. 

Partit, 184, parted. 

Pas, 67, pass. 

Pascall, 38, paschal. 

Pasche, Easter. 

Passioun, 37, passion. 

Passioun, 55, suffering. 

Passis, 59, surpasses. 

Passit, 38, passed. 

Pater-nosteris, 176, pater- 
nosters. 



Glossary. 



289 



Patter, 170, chatter. 
Paunce, 182, amble. 
Pay it, 15 4, paid. 
Peax, 90, peace. 
Peblis, Peebles. 
Peciabillie, 8 3, peaceably. 
Pecis, 9 7, pieces. 
Peice, 61 , peace. 
Peir, 26, equal. 
Peirles, 35 , unequalled. 
Peirs, 139, pierce. 
Peirsit, 147 , pierced. 
Peltrie, 154, pedlers ware. 
Penneis, 154, pence. 
Pennes, 93, feathers. 
Penurie, 188, penury. 
Pepellis, 82, peoples. 
Pepil, pepill, people. 
Perellis, 94, perils. 
Perfit, perfite, perfect. 
Performit, 70 , performed. 
Perfy te, 57, perfect. 
Perische, 15 5, perish. 
Perischit, 92, perished. 
Perishe, 79, perish. 
Perishit, 97, destroyed. 
Perpetuall, 82, perpetually. 
Perrell, 84, peril. 
Perrellis, 94, perils. 
Persaue, 137, perceive. 
Persauis, 82, perceives. 
Perseueir, 51, persevere. 
Perseuerance, 20, persever- 
ance. 
Perseuir, 29, persevere. 
Perseveir, 20, persevere. 
Persew, 70, pursue. 
Persewaris, 80, pursuers. 
Persones, 19 5, parsons. 



Persoun, 180, parson. 

Perswaid, 7 2 , perceived. 

Perturbe, 92, vex. 

Perturbis, 82, disturbs. 

Peruer st , 186, perverse. 

Perysit, 7 6, perished. 

Petitiounis, 4, petitions. 

Pittenweme, Pitten<weem. 

Pharesians, 168; Pharisians, 
47, Pharisees. 

Phenis, 157, Phinehas. 

Picht, 190, placed. 

Pietifiill, 36, pitiful. 

Pilgramage, 143, pilgrim- 
age. 

Pitie, 30, pity. 

Pitious, 31 , piteous. 

Plaguit, 87, plagued. 

Plaig, 99, plague. 

Plaige, 20, pledge. 

Plainlie, 166, plainly. 

Plaintis, 196, complaints. 

Plak, iyg, plack. 

Plane, 76, to shew. 

Planelie, 195, plainly, 

Plantit, 138, planted. 

Pleasand, 7 ^pleasant. 

Pleid, 130, liability. 

Pleid, 61, plead. 

Pleis, 77, please. 

Plentie, 59, plenty. 

Plenteouslie, plenteous ly. 

Plenze, 59, complain. 

Plesand, 81, pleasant. 

Plesandlie, 88, pleasantly. 

Plesit, 139, pleased. 

Plesour, 88, pleasure. 

Plesouris, 129, pleasures. 

Plesure, 76, pleasure. 



290 



Glossary. 



Plet, 24, placed. 
Plicht, 14, plea. 
Pluk, 1 70* pluck, steal. 
Pluke, 144, pluck. 
Plyabill, 30, compliant. 
Poetis, 188, poets 
Pointis, 37, points. 
Polit, 180, tickled. 
Pompe, 92, pomp. 
Ponce, 3, Pontius. 
Popische, 179, popish. 
Port, gate. 
Postle, apostle. 
Posseid, 82, possess. 
Posses, 58, possess. 
Pot, 130, pit. 
Pouertie, 1%^ poverty. 
Powair, 100, power. 
Poysonit, 1 85 , poisoned. 
Poysound, 46, poisoned. 
Prais, 109 , praise. 
Pray, 27, prey. 
Prayand, 67, praying. 
Preceptis, 49, precepts. 
Preclair, 80, clear. 
Prefar, 76, prefer. 
Preferrit, 162, preferred. 
Preiche, % preach. 
Preicheouris, 140, preach- 
ers. 
Preicheris, 6, preachers. 
Preichit, 48, preached. 
Preichouris, 160, preachers. 
Preif, 29, proof; 76, prove. 
Preis, 25, strive. 
Preist, 1 7 6, priest. 
Preistis, 170, priests. 
Prelatis, 1 95 , prelates. 
Prent, 12, imprint. 



Prepair, 7 4 , prepare. 
Preparit, 200, prepared. 
Presence, 163, presents. 
Preseruis, 80, preserves. 
Preseruit, 86, preserved. 
Presoun, 198, prison. 
Preuaill, 187, prevail. 
Preuaricatioun, 158, pre- 
varication. 
Preue, 170, prove. 
Preuene, 144, prevent. 
Preuis, 18 5, proves. 
Princelie, 195, princely. 
Prisoun, 103, prison. 
Priuelie, 8 7, privily. 
Proceid, 71, proceed. 
Proceiding, 149, proceeding. 
Proceidis, 87, proceeds. 
Prologve, prologue. 
Promeis, 5 7, promise. 
Promeist, 28, promised. 
Promit, 77, promise. 
Promittis, 98, promises. 
Promittit, 98, promised. 
Promysit, 126, promised. 
Pronunce, 9 6, pronounce. 
Propertie, 184, property. 
Prophaine, 200, profane. 
Prophesie, 73, prophesy. 
Prophetis, 156, prophets. 
Propyne, 28, present. 
Proude, 125, proud. 
Prouisioun, 120, provision. 
Prouyde, 80, provide. 
Pryce, 167, price. 
Pryde, 80, pride. 
Prydefull, 6s,prideful. 
Pryse, 7 6, praise, esteem. 
Pryse, 22, prize. 



Glossary. 



291 



Psalme, 99, psalm. 
Psalmes, psalms. 
Ptolomie, Ptolemy. 
Pulis, 162, pools. 
Pundis, 170, pounds. 
Puneis, 167, punish. 
Puneist, 10 3, punished. 
Punische, 196, punish. 
Punischement, 190, punish- 
ment. 
Purches, 56, purchase. 
Purchest, 75, purchased. 
Pure, 103, poor. 
Pureteth, 64, poverty. 
Purgatorie, 6 3, purgatory. 
Purgit, purged. 
Purifyit, 7 7 , purified. 
Purpois, 37 ', , purpose. 
Purpour, 35 > purple. 
Purs, 171, purse. 
Pursis, 176, purses. 
Purteth, 92, poverty. 
Puttand, 1 si, putting. 
Puttis, 125, puts. 
Pyke, 176, pick. 
Pylate, 3, Pilate. 
Pynde, 103, pained \ wasted. 
Pynde, 22, 120, tortured. 
Pyne, 2 7, pain. 
Pype, 182, play, pipe. 



Quaik, 182, quake. 
Queir, 176, choir. 
Quha, 25, who. 
Quhair, 58, where. 
Quhairby, 118, whereby. 



Quhair euer, 58, wher- 
ever. 

Quhairfoir, 68, where/or. 

Quhair fra, 174, where 
from. 

Quhairin, 44, wherein. 

Quhair of, 80, whereof. 

Quhairof, 11, whereof. 

Quhair throw, 56, 'where- 
through. 

Quhairwith, 30, where- 
with. 

Quhais, 55, whose. 

Quhasaeuer, 5, whosoever. 

Quhat, 34, what. 

Quhat euer, 89, what- 
ever. 

Quhatsaeuer, 6, whatso- 
ever. 

Quhen, 30, when. 

Quheill, 92, wheel. 

Quhile, 83, while. 

Quhilk, 34, who, which. 

Quhilkis, 200, which. 

Quhill, 149, till. 

Quhill, while, until. 

Quhisperit, 176, whispered. 

Quhit, 178, whit. 

Quhite, 63, to cut with a 
knife. 

Quho, 116, who. 

Quhome, 59, whom. 

Quhy, 157, why. 

Quhyle, 188, short time. 

Quhylis, times, sometimes. 

Quhyte, 154, white. 

Quick, 10, living. 

Quicke, 4, living. 

Quicklie, 181, quickly. 



292 



Glossary. 



Quiklie, 195, quickly. 
Quod, 202, quoth. 
Quyet, 190, quiet. 
Quyte, 98, 202, quit. 
Quyte, quite, entirely. 
Quyte, 6s, free from. 
Quyte claime, 171, quit 

claim. 
Qvhat, 74, what. 



R. 

Raif, 52, tore. 
Ramis, 95, rams. 
Rander, 142, render. 
Ransoun, 68, ransom. 
Rais, 195, raise • 96, rose. 
Raisit, 71, raised. 
Rasche, 99, dash. 
Realme, 4, realm. 
Rebelland, 104, rebelling. 
Rebellis, 90, rebels. 
Red, 93, afraid. 
Red, 160, read. 
Reddie, 100, ready. 
Reddy, 117, ready. 
Redeme, 37, redeem. 
Redemed, redeemed. 
Redemit, 69, redeemed. 
Redres, 114, redress. 
Reformit, 75, reformed. 
Refraine, 37, abstain from. 
Refresche, 18, refresh. 
Refreschit, 66, refreshed. 
Reft, 158, snatched. 
Refusit, 152, refused. 
Regnand, 10 1, reigning. 
Regnis, 168, reigns. 



Reheirs, 73, rehearse. 

Reheirsis, 62, rehearses. 

Reif, 8, outrage. 

Reif, 6s, rob, steal. 

Reigne, 190, reign. 

Reigne, 99, kingdom. 

Reignes, 125, reigns. 

Reid, 69, read. 

Reid, red. 

Reioyce, 34, rejoice. 

Reioycit, 51, rejoiced. 

Rejoyis, 88, rejoice. 

Reik, 163, smoke, incense. 

Reird, 84, clamour ; 95, 
noise. 

Rekning, 197, reckoning. 

Releif, 36, relieve. 

Releue, 93, relief; 12, re- 
lieve. 

Relykis, 169, relics. 

Remaine, 189, remain. 

Remeid, S3-> remedy. 

Remedie, 56, remedy. 

Remediles, 129, without 
remedy. 

Remissioun, 4, remission. 

Remittit, 102, remitted. 

Remord, 158, repent. 

Remord, 104, make re- 
morseful. 

Remoue, 6s, remove. 

Remufe, 75, remove. 

Renoun, 18, renown. 

Renowne, 160, renown. 

Renownes, renowns. 

Renunce, 131, renounce. 

Repentand, 15, repenting. 

Repleit, 113, replete, filed. 

Repois, 146, repose. 



Glossary. 



293 



Repreuing, 133, reproving. 

Reprufe, 75, reproof. 

Reprufe, 9, reprove. 

Repute, 38, reputed. 

Requyre, 7, require. 

Requyris, 174, requires. 

Requyrit, 99, required. 

Resistand, 20, resisting. 

Resistis, 75, resists. 

Resistit, 104, resisted. 

Ressaif, 65, receive. 

Ressaue, ^30, receive. 

Ressauis, 29, receives. 

Ressauit, 52, received. 

Ressoun, 118, reason. 

Restoir, 184, restore. 

Restoird, 57, restored. 

Restord, 115, restored. 

Restorit, 70, restored. 

Resurrectioun, 4, resurrec- 
tion. 

Retene, 6, retain. 

Retenit, 6, retained. 

Reuart, 67, revert, turn 
back. 

Reuenge, 87, revenge. 

Reule, 75, rule. 

Reuth, 148, pity. 

Reuthfull, 141, pitying. 

Rew, no, regret. 

Rewaird, 130, reward. 

Rewardit, $5, rewarded. 

Rewlaris, 76, rulers. 

Rewle, 190, rule. 

Rewling, 127, ruling. 

Rewlis, 38, rules. 

Riche, 45, enrich. 

Riche, 30, rich. 

Richt, 66, right. 



Richteous, 5, righteous. 

Richteousnes, 10, righteous- 
ness. 

Rin, 97, run. 

Ring, 57, reign. 

Ringand, 144, reigning. 

Ringis, 48, reigns. 

Rinnand, 152, running. 

Rinnis, 102, runs. 

Rissen, 69, risen. 

Riuer, 147, river. 

Riueris, 102, rivers. 

Roboam, Rehoboam. 

Rocke, 45, rock, cherish. 

Rockit, 133, shaken. 

Rod, 200, road. 

Roddis, 183, rods. 

Romanes, Romans. 

Rottin, 162, rotten. 

Rox, 153, rocks. 

Rubbis, 153, rubs. 

Rude, 168, rood, the Cross. 

Ruddis, 169, roods, crosses. 

Ruglane, Rutherglen. 

Rute, 83, root. 

Rutit, ruttit, rooted. 

Ryall, 196, royally. 

Ryatous, 35, riotous. 

Ryatouslie, 31, riotously. 

Ryches, 163, riches. 

Rycht, 68, right. 

Rychteousnes, 76, righteous- 
ness. 

Ryde, 190, ride. 

Ryfe, ma?iy, plentiful. 

Ryis, 198, rise. 

Rype, 93, matured. 

Ryse, 36, rise. 

Ryue, 164, tear, burst. 



294 



Glossary. 



Sa, 32, so. 

Sabboth, 2, Sabbath. 
Sacrifying, sacrifising. 
Said, 29, long-continued. 
Saif, 46, safe; 30, j<2t*?. 
Saif, 53, save, but. 
Saif, 82, saved. 
Saift, 60, saved. 
Saik, 64, j<2/fe. 
Saikis, 159, j#/£<?j. 
Saikleslie, 201, without guilt. 
Saine, 26, blessed. 
Saintes, saints. 
Sair, 29, 75, Jon?. 
Sairis, 35, jo/tj. 
Sait, 82, im*. 
Sal, 86, shall. 
Salbe, 74, j£<z// Ac. 
Said, 106, sold. 
Sail, 59, shall. 
Salomone, 157, Solomon. 
Saluation, 177, salvation. 
Saluatioun, 43, salvation. 
Sanct, 34, saint. 
Sanctandrois, St Andrews. 
S. Andro, 67 Andrew. 
S. Barnabie, St Barnabas. 
S. Cudbert, St Cuthbert. 
S. Dinneis, St Denis. 
S. Jhone, St John. 
S. John Euangell, St John 

Evangelist. 
S. Johnis, St Johns. 
S. Johnstoun, town of Perth. 
S. Katherene, St Catherine. 
S. Steuin, St Stephen. 
Sanctifyit, 101, sanctified. 



Sanctis, saints, sainfs. 
Sandell, 44, rich embroidered 

cloth. 
Sandellis, 171, sandals. 
Sang, 67, sung. 
Sang, 71, song. 
Sangis, 61, songs. 
Samin, 102, same. 
Sathan, 52, Satan. 
Sathanis, 9, Satan s. 
Satisfie, 21, satisfy. 
Satisfyis, 101, satisfies. 
Sauch, 99, willow. 
Saue, 77, save. 
Sauer, 96, savour. 
Saues, 193, saves. 
Sailing, 137, saving. 
Sauiour, 45, saviour. 
Sauis, 86, saves. 
Sauit, 52, saved. 
Sauld, 37, sold. 
Saule, 125, sold. 
Sauiis, 59, souls. 
Saull, 175, soul. 
Saullis, souls, soul's. 
Sauour, 128, savour. 
Sawin, 178, sown. 
Sayand, 13, saying. 
Sayis, 62, says. 
Say weill, 181, say well. 
Scarlat, 91, scarlet. 
Scatteris, 125, scatters. 
Schaip, 153, scare away. 
Schaipis, 124, aim. 
Schairp, 71, sharp. 
Schairply, 105, sharply. 
Schame, 24, shame. 
Scharp, 87, sharp. 
Scharplie, 97, sharply. 



Gh 



ssary. 



*95 



Schauelingis, 179, shave- 
lings. 
Schauin, 155, shaven. 
Schauin sort, 155, monks. 
Schaw, 75, shew, 
Schawand, 169, shewing. 
Schawin, 115, she-am. 
Schawis, 29, shews. 
Sched, 168, shed. 
Schedding, no, shedding. 
Scheild, 158, shield. 
Schent, 201, destroyed. 
Schent, 39, utterly lost. 
Scheip, 80, sheep. 
Schew, show, showed. 
Scho, 73, she. 
Schoir, 172, threaten. 
S choir, S3i threatening. 
Schoir, 167, transgression. 
Schone, 32, shoes. 
S chord, 78, threatened. 
Schorit, 97, threatened. 
Schort, 30, short. 
Schortest, shortest. 
Schot, 131, penalty. 
Schyne, 83, shine. 
Schynis, 126, shines. 
Sclander, 58, slander. 
Scoir, 182, score. 
Scornis, 82, scorns. 
Scornit, 188, scorned. 
Sculptill, 200, graven. 
Scurge, 29, scourge. 
Scurgis, 133, scourges. 
Scurgit, 39, scourged. 
Se, 48, see. 
Seasit, 163, held. 
Seb, 92, Zeeb. 
Secreit, 89, secret. 



Secreitlie, 114, secretly. 
Sectouris, 26, executors. 
Seid, 85, seed. 
Seik, 35, sick* 
Seik, 69, seek. 
Seiking, 140, seeking. 
Seikly, 35, sickly , feeble. 
Seine, 69, seen. 
Seirche, 87, search. 
Seis, 58, sees. 
Selfis, 152, selves. 
Sell, 14, self. 
Sellis, 176, sells. 
Sembling, 199, seeming, 

show. 
Seme, 185, seem. 
Semely, 182, seemly. 
Semis, 168, seems. 
Sempill, 6 ^, simple. 
Sen, 61, since. 
Send, 74, sent. 
Sendis, 86, sends. 
Sene, 29, seen. 
Sensualitie, 37, sensuality. 
Sepulture, 102, burial. 
Sepulture, 149, grave. 
Seruand, 68, servant. 
Seruandis, 101, servants. 
Serue, no, deserve. 
Serue, s^>, serve. 
Seruice, 140, service. 
Seruis, 72, served. 
Seruit, 197, served. 
Seruitour, 142, servant. 
Seruitude, 68, servitude. 
Seruiture, 150, servant. 
Sesoun, 87, season. 
Settis, 140, sets. 
Seuin, 77, seven. 



i$6 



G/ossa, 



ry. 



Seuinfald, 103, sevenfold. 

Sew, sue. 

Sex, 74, six. 

Sex and seuin, 23, six and 

seven (a game). 
Sext, sixth. 
Sey, 95, sea. 
Shawis, 155, shews. 
Shortlie, 37, shortly. 
Sic, 26, jo. 
Sic, 89, such. 
Sic a kinde, 89, such a 

fashion. 
Sicera, 91, Sis era. 
Sich, 133, sigh. 
Sicht, 29, j/^-^. 
Sicker, 94, j«ra 
Siclike, 92, suchlike, like as. 
Siclyke, 71, suchlike. 
Signe, 14, sign. 
S illie, 25 , feeble ; 179, /W- 

ish. 
Sillier, 77, silver. 
Sinay, 6, Sinai. 
Sindrie, sundry. 
Sing, for sign, 72, aspect. 
Singand, 113, singing. 
Sinnand, 106, sinning. 
Sinnaris, 93, sinners. 
Sinnes, no, sins. 
Sinnis, 92, sins. 
Sinnit, 32, sinned. 
Sisteris, 62, sisters. 
Sittis, 3, sits ; 114, sittest. 
Skaith, 49, harm. 
Skaldit, 163, scalded. 
Skant, 31, scarce, scant. 
Skarlat, 172, scarlet. 
Skinnis, 153, skins. 



Skyis, 81, skies* 
Sla, 184, slay. 
Slaik, 195, slack. 
Slake, slack. 
Slane, 21, slain. 
Slaw, 100, slow. 
Sleip, 1 01, sleep. 
Sleipis, 144, sleeps. 
Sleipit, 102, slept. 
Sleuth, 89, sloth. 
Slicht, 152, cunning, fraud. 
Slie, 131, sly. 
Slipper, 182, slippery. 
Slokkin, 70, quench. 
Slycht, 90, cunning. 
Slychtis, 160, tricks. 
Slyde, 100, slide. 
Sly ding, 72, slipping. 
Slydrie, 89, slippery. 
Slyme, 144, clay. 
Smart, 118, pain. 
Smellit, 151, smelt. 
Smoir, 161, smother. 
Smorit, 181, smothered. 
Snair, 189, snare. 
Snaird, 189, ensnared. 
Snakis, 163, snakes. 
Snaw, 107, snow. 
Snib, 66, hinder. 
Sober, 37, small, mean. 
Sober, 137, soir, suffering. 
Soberlie, 13, soberly. 
Socht, 39, sought. 
Sondayis, Sundays. 
Soneandair, 34, son and heir. 
Sone, 33, son. 
Sone, 39, soon. 
Sone, 144, sun. 
Sones, 22, sons. 



Glossary. 



297 



Sonnes, 30, sons. 

Sonnis, 5$, sons. 

Soir, 58, sore. 

Soirly, 54, sorely, anxiously. 

Solempnitie, solemnity. 

Solistatioun, 11, anxiety, 

solicitude. 
Sorie, 78, sad. 
Soueraine, 69, sovereign. 
Spak, 74, spoke. 
Spait, <) 7, flood. 
Spectakill, 78, spectacle. 
Speid, 153, speed. 
Speik, 125, speak. 
Speikand, 85, speaking. 
Speikes, 85, speaks. 
Speikis, 77, speaks. 
Speir, 152, ask. 
Speir, 108, spear. 
Spendit, 84, spent. 
Spill, 149, destroy. 
Spill, 118, mar. 
Spilt, 135, destroyed. 
Spirituall, spiritual. 
Spittit, 148, spat. 
Splene, 146, spleen. 
Spokin, 118, spoken. 
Sponk, 163, spark. 
Spousit, 73, espoused. 
Spoylzeit, 52, spoiled. 
Spred, 120, spread. 
Spreit, 109, spirit. 
Springis, 174, springs. 
Sprinkill, 107, sprinkle. 
Spy it, espied, seen. 
Staffe, 80, staff. 
Staine, 63, stone. 
Stait, 8a, state. 
Stakerand, 88, stumbling. 



Stakis, 163, stakes. 
Stand, 97, stood. 
Standand, 185, standing. 
Standis, 183, stand. 
Stane, 54, stone. 
Stang, 71, sting. 
Stangand, 163, stinging. 
Stanis, 44, stones. 
Stark, 23, strong, powerful. 
Steid, 195, stead. 
Steidfast, 62, steadfast. 
Steidfastlie, 42, steadfastly. 
Steik, 202, shut. 
Steill, 6s, steal. 
Steir, 196, government. 
Steir, 10, stir. 
Stend, 95, spring. 
Stepillis, 185, steeples. 
Steppis, 202, steps. 
Sternis, 127, stars. 
Stert, 95, start. 
Stife, 91, stiff. 
Stinkand, 172, stinking. 
Stok, 54, stock. 
Stoir, 57, store. 
Stomak, 31, stomach. 
Stomokis, 65, stomachs. 
Stoppit, 71, stopped. 
Stormis, 186, storms. 
Storie, 92, story. 
Stound, 87, aching, pain. 
Straif, 38, strove. 
Straik, 191, struck. 
Strang, 58, strong. 
Strangair, 116, stranger. 
Strampe, 94, tread. 
Stray, 44, straw. 
Streit, 102, street. 
Stremis, 97, streams. 



2 9 3 



Glossary. 



Strenth, 49, strength. 
Strenth, 48, strengthen. 
Stres, 105, distraining. 
Stres, 113, distress. 
Strickin, 168, struck. 
Stringit, 81, stringed. 
Striue, 24, strife. 
Striuiling, Stirling. 
Stroy, 124, destroy. 
Stryfe, 27, strife. 
Stryfe, 146, striving, fight- 
ing. 
Stryke, 87, strike. 
Stryuand, 91, striving. 
Stryue, 75, strive. 
Stude, 122, stood. 
Stule, 44, stool. 
Stummer, 100, stumble. 
Sturdie, 186, vexing. 
Subdew, 69, subdue. 
Subdewit, 26, subdued. 
Subtell, 131, subtle. 
Subteltie, 160, subtlety. 
Subtill, 190, subtle. 
Suddand, 78, sudden. 
Suddanely, 198, suddenly. 
Suddanly, 28, suddenly. 
Sufferit, 59, suffered. 
Suith, 202, true. 
Suith, 166, truth. 
Suld, 29, should. 
Sum, 60, some. 
Sum deale, 181, somewhat. 
Summe, 37, sum. 
Sune, 89, soon. 
Sunne, 2, sun. 
Supplie, 72, supply, 
Suppois, 183, suppose. 
Sure, 94, assure. 



Suretie, 59, surety , certainty. 
Surfet, 65, surfeit. 
Surmisse, 133, surmise. 
Suspitioun, 87, suspicion. 
Susseit, 149, hesitated. 
Susteinit, 188, sustained. 
Sustene, 30, sustain. 
Swa, 150, so. 
Sweilling, 44, swaddling. 
Sweir, 198, loth. 
Sweir, 79, swear. 
Sweit, 88, sweet. 
Sweiter, 146, sweeter. 
Sweitest, sweetest. 
Sweitly, 61 , sweetly. 
Swelland, 95, swelling. 
Swyith, 44, quick. 
Swyne, 165, swine. 
Syde, 61, side. 
Sylk, 35, silk. 
Syle, 156, betray. 
Syllie, simple, harmless. 
Symeon, 57, Simeon. 
Syne, 162, after. 
Syne, 35, after-wards. 
Synk, 162, cesspool. 
Syse, 7, assize. 
Syse, 115, times. 
Syith, 91, compensation. 



Tabernakil, 78, tabernacle. 
Tabernackles, tabernacles. 
Tabill, 202, table. 
Tabillis, 7, tables. 
Tak, 109, take. 
Takin, taken. 



Glossary. 



299 



Takin, 12, token, 
Takis, 22, takes. 
Tak tent, 22, be attentive, 
Tailit, 177, tailed. 
Taine, tane, taken. 
Tantonie, 153, St Anthony, 
Targe, 82, shield, 
Tarie, 154, tarry. 
Taucht, 25, taught. 
Tauld, 176, told, 
Teiche, 63, teach, 
Teichement, 77, teaching, 
Teiching, 1, teaching, 
Teichit, 25, taught, 
Teind, 158, tenth, 
Teindit, 164, teinded. 
Teine, 78, injury, loss, 
Teiris, 109, tears. 
Teith, 14, 97, teeth. 
Tempill, 101, temple, 
Temptit, 30, tempted, 
Tenderlie, 66, tenderly, 
Termis, 195, terms, 
Terribill, 35, terrible, 
Testifyis, 200, testifies, 
Thae, 102, they. 
Thai, $6, they, 
Thair, 1, their. 
Thair, 58, there. 
Thairby, 38, thereby. 
Thairfoir, 29, therefore. 
Thairin, 153, therein. 
Thairof, 117, thereof. 
Thairtill, 31, thereto. 
Thairto, 57, thereto. 
Thame, 167, them. 
Thame self, 164, themselves. 
Thame selfis, 87, themselves. 
Thankis, 5, thanks. 



Thay, 125, they, those. 
The, 29, thee. 
Theifis, 134, theives, 
Thift, 8, theft. 
Thine furth, 1 11 ,t henceforth. 
Thingis, 69, things. 
Thinkand, 180, thinking. 
Thinkis, 195, thinks. 
Thir, 78, these. 
Thirlage, 85, bondage. 
Thirldome, 99, thraldom. 
Thirlit, 52, bound to. 
Thirlit, 30, enthralled. 
Thirlit, 118, pierced, 
Thocht, 89, thought, 
Thocht, 29, although, 
Thochtis, 48, thoughts, 
Thoill, 30, suffer, endure. 
Thole, 89, endure, 
Tholit, 67, endured, 
Thousandis, 2, thousands, 
Thow, 6, thou. 
Thrall, 53, servant. 
Thrall, 145, stubborn, hard. 
Thrawardnes, 6s , perverse- 

ness. 
Thre, 60, three. 
Threid, 72, thread. 
Threitning, 3, threatening. 
Thrid, 39, third. 
Thrinfalde, 179, threefold. 
Thring, 124, thrust. 
Thrist, 131, thirst. 
Throuchlie, 181, thoroughly. 
Throtis, 96, throats. 
Throw, 39, through. 
Thyne, 54, thence, 
Thyne, thy, thine. 
Til, 1 01, to. 



3°° 



Glossary. 



Till, 58, to. 
Tint, 158, lost. 
Tippet, 171, short cloak. 
To, 166, too. 
Togidder, 19, together. 
Torment, 36, tormented. 
Tormenting, 36, torment. 
Tormentit, 162, tormented. 
Tot quot, 154, so much. 
Totcheit, 133, tossed about. 
Toung, 36, tongue. 
Toungis, 77, tongues. 
Tour, 142, tower. 
Traine, 188, enticement, 

snare. 
Traist, 34, trust. 
Trai stand, 116, trusting. 
Traistis, 76, trusts. 
Transitoir, 72, transitory. 
Translatit, 74, translated. 
Trappit, 175, trapped. 
Tratour, 37, traitor. 
Trauel, 16, labour. 
Trauell, 89, trouble, pains. 
Tre, 44, wood; 167, the 

Cross. 
Treasour, 34, treasure. 
Tred, 94, tread. 
Treis, 114, trees. 
Trespas, 61, trespass. 
Trespassis, 4, trespasses. 
Treuth, 77, truth. 
Trew, 160, true. 
Trewar, 77, truer. 
Trewlie, 60, truly. 
Trewly, 36, truly. 
Trick, 182, artful, clever. 
Triffillis, 195, trifles. 
Trimbill, 182, tremble. 



Tripairtit, 184, parted in 

three. 
Trothe, 54, truth. 
Troubill, 58, trouble. 
Troublis, 29, troubles. 
Troublit, 15, troubled. 
Trow, 63, believe, trust. 
Trowis, 155, believes. 
Trublit, 88, troubled. 
Trumpettis, trumpets. 
Trybes, tribes. 
Tryflis, 177, trifles. 
Trym, 32, trim. 
Tryne, 91, multitude. 
Tryne, 12, retinue. 
Tryumphe, 52, triumph. 
Tuik, 44, took. 
Tuke, 184, took. 
Tuke trauell, 89, took pains. 
Tumbe, 137, tomb. 
Tung, 173, tongue. 
Tungis, tungs, tongues. 
Turnand, 151, turning. 
Turne, 37, turn. 
Turnis, $$, turns. 
Turnit, 144, turned. 
Turs, 171, truss. 
Twa, 30, two. 
Twa edgeit, 87, two-edged. 
Tway, 171, two. 
Twelf, 3, twelve. 
Twentie, 2, twentieth. 
Twentie, 60, twenty. 
Twin, 53, separate. 
Twyse, 7, twice. 
Tyde, 37, time. 
Tyde, 101, season. 
Tykis, 162, dogs. 
Tyme, 29, time. 



1 

I 



Glossary. 



301 



Tymes, 77, times. 
Tyne, 31, lose, be lost. 
Tyrane, 86, tyrant. 
Tyrannis, 40, tyrants. 
Tyrle, 81, trill. 
Tyrranis, 86, tyrants'. 
Tythingis, 43, tidings. 



U. 

Uengeance, 171, vengeance. 
Unburyit, 102, unburied. 
Unknawin, 117, unknown. 
Unkyndly, 58, unkindly. 
Utheris, others. 



Vaill, 6^, value. 
Vaine, vane, vain. 
Valure, 146, valour. 
Vangel, 30, gospel. 
Vanitie, 64, vanity 
Vaniteis, 201, vanities. 
Variance, 17, change. 
Veirs, 14, verse. 
Veluote, 172, velvet. 
Veneis, Venice. 
Vennemous, 68, venemous. 
Verifie, 67, verify. 
Veritie, 40, verity, truth. 
Verray, 117, very. 
Verteousnes, 80, virtue. 
Vertew, 181, virtue. 
Vexacioun, 11, vexation. 
Vexit, 77, vexed. 
Victorie, 75, victory. 



Victour, 20, conqueror. 

Vincust, 24, vanquished. 

Visibill, 71, visible. 

Visitis, 2, visits. 

Vitious, 23, unregulated* 

Vittel, 31, grain. 

Vmbeset, 53, surrounded. 

Vmest, 171, uppermost. 

Vnbeleuaris, unbelievers. 

Vnbeleue, 11, unbelief. 

Vnclene, 177, unclean. 

Vncouth, 93, strange. 

Vnder, 2, under. 

Vnderstand, 10, understand. 

Vnderstude, 46, understood. 

Vnfenzeitlie, 42, unfeign- 
edly. 

Vnforlorne, 127, not lost. 

Vniuersall, 4, universal. 

Vnitie, 157, unity. 

Vnkynde, 122, unkind. 

Vnkyndelie, 137, unkindly. 

Vnkyndenes, 132, 133, un- 
kindness. 

Vnperfite, 63, imperfect. 

Vnricht, 44, unrighteous. 

Vnricht, 151, wrong. 

Vnrichteousnes, io,unright- 
eousness. 

Vnschamefastnes, 6 5 , shame- 
less ness. 

Vnstabill, 92, unstable. 

Vnsure, 107, uncertain. 

Vnthankfull, 150, unthank- 
ful. 

Vntill, 5, until. 

Vnto, 196, unto. 

Vntraistie, 188, untrusty. 

Vntrew, 127, untrue. 



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Glossary, 



Vnworthelie, 1 5 , unworthily. 
Vnworthely, 5, unworthily. 
Vnworthie, 24, unworthy. 
Voce, 86; Voyce, 13, voice, 
Voide, 102, devoid, 
Voyde, 29, void, 
Vowis, 14, vows, 
Vp, 81, up, 
Vpbring, 142, rear, 
Vpon, 2, upon, 
Vpper, 181, upper, 
Vproir, 177, uproar, 
Vs, 32, us, 
Vse, vsis, use, uses, 
Vsit, 177, used, 
Vsurpit, 153, usurped, 
Vther, 57, other, 
Vtheris, 168, others, 
Vtter, 92, utter, 
Vyce, 166, vice, 
Vylanie, 135, villany, 
Vylde, vyle, vile. 



W. 

Wacht, 23, quaff, 
Waigis, 195, wages, 
Waik, 126, watch, 
Waik, 193, weak, 
Waiknes, 57, weakness, 
Wairis, 195, wares , goods, 
Waistit, 31, wasted. 
Wait, 129, know, knew. 
Wait, 198, knowest, 
Waitis, 98, waits, 
Wald, 31, would, 
Walkand, 120, awake. 



Walkins, 123, wakens, 

Walkis, 88, walks, 

Wallis, 113, walls. 

Wallis, 97, 168, waves, 

Wallowis, % 3, fades. 

Wallowit, 202, withered* 

Wan, 174, won. 

Wan, 28, stroke, sickness, 

Wantand, 103, wanting. 

Want it, 35, wanted, 

Wantounlie, 179, wantonly. 

War, 32, aware. 

War, 161, were. 

Wardly, 64, worldly, 

Wark, 88, work, 

Warkand, 157, working. 

Warkis, 80, works, 

Warld, 120, world, 

Warldis, worlds, world's. 

Warldly, 122, worldly. 

Warldlie, 24, worldly. 

Warrand, 97, warrant, 

Wat, 166, know ; 168, 
knows, 

Wate, 91, knew. 

Wateris, 81, waters. 

Watter, 14, water. 

Wauer, 80, waver. 

Wawis, 97, waves. 

Way, 163, wo, 

Wayis, 83, ways. 

Wayis, 36, wise. 

Waxit, 134, became. 

Weddit, 46, wedded. 

Weid, 93, dwelling-place. 

Weilbelouit, 13, well-be- 
loved. 

Weild, 145, possess. 

Weill, 159, weal. 



Glossary. 



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Weill, 65, well. 

Weill or wo, 5 3, prosperity 
or adversity. 

Weind, 171, fancied. 

Weip, 19, weep. 

Weipit, 99, wept. 

Weir, 130, doubt. 

Weir, 197, law phrase, re- 
ferring to a doubtful debt. 

Weir, 158, strife ; 22, war. 

Weird, 24, fate, destiny. 

Weiris, 185, wars. 

Weirlie, 93, happy. 

Weit, 36, wet. 

Welcom, 150, welcome. 

Welterand, 97, rolling. 

Welth, 88, wealth. 

Welth ,168, gladness . 

Welthie, 189, wealthy. 

Wemen, 186, women. 

Wemis, Wemyss. 

Wenche, 190, girl. 

Wend, 25, go; 77, gone. 

Wene, 30, imagine, think. 

Went, 98, gone. 

Wer, 29, were, wert. 

Wes, ^t,, was* 

Wesclie, 105, wash. 

Weschin, 148, washed. 

Whill, while. 

Wicht, 23, 75, active, agile. 

Wicht, 117, man, person. 

Wicket, 82, wicked. 

Wickit, 55, wicked. 

Wickitnes, 64, wickedness. 

Widderit, 83, withered. 

Wil, 78, wilt. 

Will, 80, wilfully. 

Win, 52, won, gained. 



Win, 16, gain. 

Win away, 97, escaped. 

Windo, 116, window. 

Wingis, 93, wings. 

Winnis, 199, gains. 

Wirk, 26, work. 

Wirkand, 57, working. 

Wirkar, 68, worker. 

Wirking, 12, working. 

Wirkis, 121, works. 

Wirschip, 81, worship. 

Wirship, 76, worship. 

Wis, 8, desire. 

Wis, 117, know. 

Wisdome, wisdom. 

Wist, 135, knew. 

Withouttin, 28, without. 

Witnessis, 37, witnesses. 

Wittis, 75, wits. 

Wo, 159, sad. 

Wod, 200, wood. 

Wolfis, 131, wolves. 

Woll, 164, wool. 

Worde, 12, word. 

Wordis, 48, words. 

W T orkis, 95, works. 

Wormes, 24, worms. 

Worschip, 57, worship. 

Worschiping, 176, wor- 
shipping. 

Worthely, 38, worthily. 

Worthie, 32, worthy. 

Wot, 154, knows. 

Wount, 161, wont. 

Wounder, 40, wonder. 

Wounder, 32, wondrous. 

Wounder, 131, wonder- 
fully. 

Wounder, 163, wondrous ly. 



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Glossary. 



Woundis, 50, wounds. 
Wrack, 162, wreck. 
Wrait, 7, wrote. 
Wraith, 19, wrath. 
Wraithrulnes, 92, wrath. 
Wrakkit, 99, overthrown. 
Wrang, 167, wrong. 
Wrangous, 152, wrong. 
Wrangus, 86, wrong-doing. 
Wray, 191, betray. 
Wreist, 62, wrest. 
Wretchit, 51, wretched. 
Wretchitnes, 19, wretched- 
ness. 
Write, 68, writing* 
Write, 98, scripture. 
Writand, 1, writing. 
Writtin, 30, written. 
Wrocht, 193, wrought. 
Wryt, 62, ^writing. 
Wryte, 14, write. 
Wryting, 39, writing. 
Wrytis, 60, writes. 
Wusche, 89, washed. 
Wushe, 38, washed. 
Wyde, 20, wide. 
Wylde, 132, vile, wicked. 
Wyfe, 114, wife. 
Wyffis, wife's, wives. 
Wyiffis, 184, wives. 
Wying, 43, pointing out. 
Wylde, 159, wild. 
Wylis, 182, enticements. 



Wyne, vine, wine. 
Wynter, winter. 
Wyse, 82, wise. 
Wyte, 166, blame. 



Ze, 29,^; l,yea. 

Zeid, 36, went. 

Zeild, 2 01, yield. 

Zeill, 176, zeal. 

Zeir, 49, year. 

Zeiris, 71, years. 

Zell, 96, yell. 

z et, 35, gate. 

Zettis, 127, gates. 

Zit, 51, yet. 

Zing, 124, young. 

Zock, 88,^0^. 

Zockit, 161, yoked. 

Zok, 25, yoke. 

Zoue, 147, you. 

Zoung, 153, young. 

Zoungest, 31, youngest. 

Zour, 62, your. 

Zour sell, 62, yourself. 

Zour selfis, 152, yourselves. 

Zouth, 2 3, youth. 

Zow, 24, you. 

Zung, 85, young. 

Zule, Tule. 



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